Kitaab Sharh us-Sunnah
by Al-Barbahaaree
Trans. Abu Talhah Dawud Burbank


83: Rhetoric (kalaam) causes disbelief, doubts, innovations, misguidance and confusion

May Allah have mercy upon you! Know that heresy, disbelief, doubts, innovations, misguidance and confusion about the religion have never occurred except through theological rhetoric (Kalaam) and because of the people of theological rhetoric, argumentation, debating and disputation. How can a man plunge into argumentation, disputation and debating seeing that Allah, the Most High, said:

None dispute regarding the Ayaat (revelations, signs, proofs) of Allah except those who disbelieve [1].

You should submit to and be pleased with the narrations and the people of narrations, withhold and remain silent.


NOTES

[1] Soorah Ghaafir (40): 4


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