لطفا منتظر باشید ...
reading the Qur'an and learn its imperatives, the forbidden things, counsels and lessons, as it used to be recited for the believers and disbelievers in the time of (coming of) revelation. Beware of going over the books of tafsir but only for understanding the meaning of some word that you could not realize what the Arabs intended by it, or connection between a word and another the conjunction of which was unknown for you. Then betake yourself to what the Qur'an designated for you, bear down upon what it assaults, and attach to this study of the Prophetic conduct, admitting the reasonable correct matters, keeping your eyes away from the weak and rejected things.747
In interpreting the Qur'an and comprehending the religion, he said: In this regard that which should be followed is only the decisive proof, since this issue comes under bab al-aqa'id (doctrines), and it is dependable upon certainty that can't be taken through conjecture and imagination.748
Believing in Message of Muhammad (S):749
Al-Ustadh Muhammad Abduh says:It should be believed in what he (S) reported and had faith in whatever he brought, with which I mean what is expressed clearly in the holy Book, and what was successively narrated (mutawatir) through an authentic chain of transmitters that having all the necessary conditions. That is the khabar that is reported by a group of people against whom charge of collaboration on falsity can never be levelled by anyone, as is usual in the case of sensible matters, such as the conditions after death like resurrection (ba'th) and bliss in the paradise, or torment in the hell, reckoning for the merits (hasanat) and guilts, beside other known alike issues. But when it is related to belief and faith, we should depend only upon what is plain in the khabar, and it is impermissible to annex the conjectural to the decisive. The provision for soundness of belief lies in its devoidness of anything spoiling the probity and highness of the Deity above being resembled to the creatures.
747. Ibid., p.559.
748. Ibid., p.643.
749. Risalat al-Tawhid, pp.200-202.
