Sharh Kashf al-Shubuhat by Ibn Uthaymeen (شرح كشف الشبهات) — Page 130

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

شَرْحُ الْأُصُولِ السِّتَّةِ.

Explanation of the Six Principles.

الْأَصْلُ الرَّابِعُ: بَيَانُ الْعِلْمِ وَالْعُلَمَاءِ وَالْفِقْهِ وَالْفُقَهَاءِ وَبَيَانُ مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِهِمْ وَلَيْسَ مِنْهُمْ، وَقَدْ بَيَّنَ اللَّهُ هَذَا الْأَصْلَ فِي أَوَّلِ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ: {يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتِيَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَوْفُوا بِعَهْدِي أُوفِ بِعَهْدِكُمْ} إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: {يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتِيَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّي فَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَى الْعَالَمِينَ}.

The Fourth Principle: An explanation of knowledge, scholars, jurisprudence, and jurists, and an explanation of those who imitate them while not being among them; Allah has explained this principle at the beginning of Surat al-Baqarah, from His saying: {O Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have bestowed upon you and fulfill My covenant [so that] I will fulfill your covenant} to His saying: {O Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have bestowed upon you and that I preferred you over the worlds}.

وَيَزِيدُهُ وُضُوحًا مَا صَرَّحَتْ بِهِ السُّنَّةُ فِي هَذَا الْكَلَامِ الْكَثِيرِ الْبَيِّنِ الْوَاضِحِ لِلْعَامِّيِّ الْبَلِيدِ، ثُمَّ صَارَ هَذَا أَغْرَبَ الْأَشْيَاءِ، وَصَارَ الْعِلْمُ وَالْفِقْهُ هُوَ الْبِدَعُ وَالضَّلَالَاتُ وَخِيَارُ مَا عِنْدَهُمْ لَبْسُ الْحَقِّ بِالْبَاطِلِ، وَصَارَ الْعِلْمُ الَّذِي فَرَضَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى الْخَلْقِ وَمَدَحَهُ لَا يَتَفَوَّهُ بِهِ إِلَّا زِنْدِيقٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ، وَصَارَ مَنْ أَنْكَرَهُ وَعَادَاهُ وَصَنَّفَ فِي التَّحْذِيرِ مِنْهُ وَالنَّهْيِ عَنْهُ هُوَ الْفَقِيهُ الْعَالِمُ.

What the Sunnah has explicitly stated in this abundant, clear, and manifest speech—even to the dull-witted layman—adds to its clarity; yet this has become the strangest of things, and knowledge and jurisprudence have become innovations and misguidance, and the best of what they possess is the mixing of truth with falsehood, and the knowledge which Allah the Exalted has obligated upon the creation and praised is no longer uttered except by a heretic or a madman, and the one who denies it, shows hostility toward it, and writes in warning against it and forbidding it has become the jurist and the scholar.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (20 verbs · 45 nouns)

• تَشَبَّهَ — to imitate
• بَيَّنَ — to clarify
• ذَكَرَ — to remember
• شَرْح — explanation
• أَصْل — foundation
• سِتَّة — six