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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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The distortions of the esoteric sects.

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They are more extreme than the Ash'aris in their application of blameworthy allegorical interpretation (ta'wil).

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These esoteric sects,

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interpret the texts even without any alleged rational evidence,

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or even a semblance of evidence.

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Rather, they do so based purely on their own whims.

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Their objective in doing this,

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is to escape the rulings of the Sharia and to discard its obligatory duties,

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and to strip Islam of its substance and reality,

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which is submission and surrender to the law of Allah.

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Examples of this include,

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their claim that what is meant by fasting,

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is the keeping of a secret,

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and that ritual impurity (janabah) is the revealing of a secret.

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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.