al-Taliqat al-Mukhtasarah ala Matn al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah - Salih Al-Fawzan - (83)

al-Taliqat al-Mukhtasarah ala Matn al-Aqidah al-TahawiyyahSalih Al-Fawzan

whereas those who disbelieve are cut off from pure tawḥīd (monotheism), pristine knowledge, and sound faith. They waver between disbelief and belief, between confirmation and denial, between acknowledgment and rejection, and they say, “What does Allah mean by this parable?” (2:26).

The Exalted also says: “He is the One who sent down to you the Book; in it are verses that are precise—they are the foundation of the Book—while others are ambiguous. As for those in whose hearts is deviation, they follow what is ambiguous in it, seeking discord and seeking its interpretation; yet no one knows its interpretation except Allah” (3:7). Allah has withheld that knowledge from His creatures, so do not weary yourself over it. He then said: “And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say, ‘We believe in it; all of it is from our Lord’” (3:7). They submit and surrender, and their ignorance of its specific meaning does not prevent them from believing in it and yielding to it. Another explanation is that they refer the ambiguous passages in Allah’s Book to its decisive ones, so that the meaning becomes clear, and they say, “All of it is from our Lord.”

Whoever refuses to submit to Allah and to the Messenger is veiled from knowing Allah and from recognizing the truth, and he wanders about in labyrinths of error (1).

Such is the state of the hypocrites: they oscillate—sometimes with the Muslims, sometimes with the hypocrites, now affirming, now denying—“whenever a flash of light appears to them…"

(1) On the authority of Abd Allah ibn Masud, may Allah be pleased with him, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Destroyed are the mutanattiun (those who exaggerate and over-complicate).” He repeated it three times. Reported by Muslim, no. 2670. Ibn al-Athir comments in al-Nihaya, 5/74: “They are people who dig deeply and go to extremes in speech, forcing their words from the very top of their throats. The term comes from al-nati, the upper palate, and by extension it came to denote every form of affected excess, whether in word or deed.”

حجبه مرامه عن خالص التوحيد، وصافي المعرفة، وصحيح الإيمان: فيتذبذب بين الكفر والإيمان، والتصديق التكذيب، والإقرار والإنكار: ــ فيقولون ماذا أراد الله بهذا مثلاً) [البقرة: ٢٦] . وقال ﷿: (هو الذي أنزل عليك الكتاب منه آيات محكمات هن أم الكتاب وأخر متشابهات فأما الذين في قلوبهم زيغ فيتبعون ما تشابه منه ابتغاء الفتنة وابتغاء تأويله وما يعلم تأويله إلا الله) [آل عمران: ٧] ، حجب الله علمه عن الخلق فلا تتعب نفسك، ثم قال: (والراسخون في العلم يقولون آمنا به كلٌ من عند ربنا) [آل عمران: ٧] . يسلّمون ويستسلمون، ولا يمنعهم عدم معرفة معناه من الإيمان به والتسليم له. أو أن المعنى أنهم يردون المتشابه من كتاب الله إلى المحكم منه ليفسروه ويتضح معناه ويقولون: (كل من عند ربنا) . من لم يُسلِّم لله ولا إلى الرسول، فإنه يحجب عن معرفة الله ومعرفة الحق، فيكون في متاهات وضلالات (١) . وهذه حال المنافقين الذين يتذبذبون، تارة مع المسلمين وتارة مع المنافقين، وتارة يصدقون وتارة يكذبون (كلما أضاء لهم

(١) فعن عبد الله بن مسعود ﵁ قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ: "هلك المتنطعون" قالها ثلاثاً. أخرجه مسلم رقم (٢٦٧٠) . ...قال ابن الأثير في النهاية (٥/٧٤) : "هم المتعمقون المغالون في الكلام المتكلمون بأقصى حلوقهم. مأخوذ من النّطع، وهو الغار الأعلى على الفم، ثم استعمل في كل تعمق قولاً وفعلاً" أهـ.