29. SAFETY LIES IN SURRENDER
One of the strangest things is attempting to seek knowing Allah’s Self (Dhat), His Attributes (Sifaf) and Actions (Af’al). This is most impossible except in generality.
The people of rhetoric (mutakallimun) dwelled too much into this issue and achieved nothing except headache, causing the wise among them to return to surrender.
Likewise, did people of opinion (ashah al-ra’i). They resorted to analogy (qiyas) and found many things not to be according to what they had thought. They had no option but to surrender.
A jurist (faqih) is he who tries to reason as much as he can, then when feels unable to reason anymore he surrenders. This is how servants are.
Whoever tries to find out: Why did Allah do this? And what does this mean? Then he is trying to realise the secret of the Master (sirr al-Malik), which is impossible for two reasons:
Firstly: Allah has concealed many of His wisdom (hikmah) from people.
Secondly: Humans are unable to comprehend all of Allah’s wisdoms.
So what remains to an objector is to resort to disbelief,
“Let him stretch out a rope to the ceiling and let him strangle himself. Then let him see whether his plan will remove that whereat he rages.” [al-Hajj (22): 15]
Meaning, He who does not accept My actions, then let him strangle himself. I only do that which I want.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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