Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (358) | The mind's opposition to the text is due to the inverse use of it
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Summary of the Core Concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah
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Opposing divine text with reason stems from a perverted use of the intellect.
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Those who claim that certain revealed texts contradict reason are not actually opposing them with genuine reason.
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Rather, they oppose them through the perverted use of their own deficient and corrupt intellects.
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An example of this is forming settled principles and axioms based on the dictates of logicians,
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or on an individual's limited, deficient observations and incomplete personal experiences,
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and then using them to judge the established tenets and axioms of the religion.
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By contrast, the correct methodology is to receive the authentic texts and comprehend them properly,
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so that settled principles and axioms may be derived directly from them.
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Summary of the Core Concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah