1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:09,470 A summary of the core concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah. 2 00:00:09,470 --> 00:00:11,970 Ambiguities in the Qur'an. 3 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:17,089 Whatever the Qur'an leaves unspecified and the Sunnah does not clarify, 4 00:00:17,089 --> 00:00:20,089 there is no benefit in seeking to determine or specify. 5 00:00:20,089 --> 00:00:26,089 Rather, doing so is an act of unnecessary overburdening and delving without knowledge into matters of no avail, 6 00:00:26,089 --> 00:00:31,089 yielding nothing but mental confusion, distraction from the primary purpose, 7 00:00:31,089 --> 00:00:35,090 and wandering lost in a desert of illusions and conjectures. 8 00:00:35,090 --> 00:00:40,590 Indeed, it is considered part of the whisperings of Satan and speaking about Allah without knowledge. 9 00:00:40,590 --> 00:00:45,090 Allah—Exalted is He—warns against this, saying: 10 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:48,590 "And do not follow the footsteps of Satan. 11 00:00:48,590 --> 00:00:52,590 Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy." 12 00:00:52,590 --> 00:00:57,590 “He enjoineth upon you only the evil and the foul, and that ye should tell concerning Allah that which ye know not.” (2:169) 13 00:00:57,590 --> 00:01:02,090 "And that you should say about Allah that which you do not know." 14 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:06,799 A summary of the core concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.