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in warning against speculative theology, forbidding it, and censuring and reproaching its practitioners. He also recognizes that whoever seeks guidance outside the Book and Sunnah only grows further from Allah.
We therefore ask Allah, the Magnificent, to guide us to His straight path—the path of those He has blessed, not of those who have incurred His anger, nor of those who have gone astray. Āmīn.
All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May His blessings and peace be upon Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and upon all his family and Companions.
حَيْثُ حَذَّرُوا عَنْ الْكَلَامِ وَنَهَوْا عَنْهُ وَذَمُّوا أَهْلَهُ وَعَابُوهُمْ وَعَلِمَ أَنَّ مَنْ ابْتَغَى الْهُدَى فِي غَيْرِ الْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ لَمْ يَزْدَدْ مِنْ اللَّهِ إلَّا بُعْدًا. فَنَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ أَنْ يَهْدِيَنَا صِرَاطَهُ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ آمِينَ. وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَصَلَاتُهُ وَسَلَامُهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ خَاتَمِ النَّبِيِّينَ وَآلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ أَجْمَعِينَ.