Role of the Mind in Understanding the Deen
The role of the mind in this is to understand, comprehend, know the meanings, look into the chains of narration - regarding the sunnah - and it's authenticity. He shouldn't put forward hish opinion before the Kitab and sunnah.
بل يجب أن تخضع للكتاب والسنة،
Rather, it's obligatory that you submit to the Book (Qur'an) and sunnah.
وليس لأهل الإسلام أن يُقدِّموا عقولهم أو آراءهم على ما قاله الكتاب والسنة،
It is not for the people of Islam to put forth their intellects or opinions above what the Book and Sunnah have said.
لا، فالعقل تابعٌ، وإنما وظيفته أن يتأمّل ويتفقه ويعمل،
No, the intellect follows; it's only job is to ponder, understand, and implement.
وليس له أن يشرع، فالذين شرعوا من الجهمية والمعتزلة وغيرهم هلكوا ووقعوا في أنواعٍ من الباطل؛ لتقديمهم العقول على النصوص،
It is not for him to legislate. Those who legislated from the jahmiyyah, mutazilah, and others doomed themselves and fell into forms of falsehood. That was because they put forth the intellects above the texts (of the Qur'an and Sunnah).
والواجب إخضاع العقول وإخضاع القلوب وإخضاع النفوس للنصوص،
And what is obligatory is to make the intellects, hearts, and souls submit to the texts (from the Quran and Sunnah),
وأن يكون المؤمن تابعًا لكتاب الله، ولما صحَّت به السنةُ عن رسول الله ﷺ،
and that the believer should be a follower of the Book of Allah and that which is authentic of the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
ولكن يستعمل عقله في معرفة المعنى، في صحَّة الحديث وعدم صحَّته، يسأل أهل العلم، ينظر في الطرق المؤدية إلى ذلك، هذه هي وظيفة العقل،
However, he uses his intellect in knowing the meanings, the authenticity or inauthenticity of the hadeeth, to ask the people of knowledge, to look into the paths that lead to that. This is the job of the intellect.
أما أن يُقدّم رأيه على ما ثبت أنه من شرع الله فلا.
As for putting forward his opinion above that which is established from the shari'ah of Allah, then no.
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