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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (389) | Required by scientific integrity
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A Summary of the Concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah
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The Requirements of Scholarly Integrity
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Just as scholarly integrity requires attributing statements and actions to the ones who made or performed them,
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it likewise demands that one make no claims without knowledge or verification.
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Allah the Almighty says:
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“(O man), follow not that whereof thou hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the sight and the heart - of each of these it will be asked.” (17:36)
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“(O man), follow not that whereof thou hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the sight and the heart - of each of these it will be asked.” (17:36)
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Meaning: Do not follow that of which you have no knowledge.
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Do not claim your ears heard what they did not hear,
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nor that your eyes saw what they did not see,
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nor claim knowledge of what you do not know.
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Thus, the Noble Qur'an calls for a person to follow nothing
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except that which he knows with certain knowledge,
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and that whose authenticity has been proven to him,
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and that this be accompanied by the uprightness of the heart and mindfulness of Allah.
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For all of these will be called to account.