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they should be beaten with palm branches and carried in that condition among the tribes and clans.
While pronouncing "this is the penalty of those who desert the Koran and the prophetic sayings and
take
themselves to scholastic theology."
Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, said, "A scholastic theologian never succeeds. You cannot find anyone who, having
dabbled in scholastic theology, without unsoundness in his heart." He was so strong in its
condemnation
that he ostracized al Harith al Muhasibi, in spite of the latter's asceticism and piety, because he
wrote a
work on the refutation of heresy, in which he told him, "Woe unto you. Do you not first state their
heretical beliefs and then answer them, thereby compelling men to study these heresies and to ponder
over these dubiosities, all of which will draw them into self opinionation and research."
Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him - also said, "The scholastic theologians are heretics." Malik -
may
Allah have mercy on him - said "Have you seen how, when one of stronger argument confronts him he
will discard his religion for a new one every day?" In other words, the position of the debators is
While pronouncing "this is the penalty of those who desert the Koran and the prophetic sayings and
take
themselves to scholastic theology."
Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, said, "A scholastic theologian never succeeds. You cannot find anyone who, having
dabbled in scholastic theology, without unsoundness in his heart." He was so strong in its
condemnation
that he ostracized al Harith al Muhasibi, in spite of the latter's asceticism and piety, because he
wrote a
work on the refutation of heresy, in which he told him, "Woe unto you. Do you not first state their
heretical beliefs and then answer them, thereby compelling men to study these heresies and to ponder
over these dubiosities, all of which will draw them into self opinionation and research."
Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him - also said, "The scholastic theologians are heretics." Malik -
may
Allah have mercy on him - said "Have you seen how, when one of stronger argument confronts him he
will discard his religion for a new one every day?" In other words, the position of the debators is