The Explanation of The Six Principles

These six principles which indicate the power of Allah the Blessed and Exalted, and it is a sign from the signs of the greatness of His Ability that He clarified these six great principles in His Book, with complete clarity such that the common people understand them, not to mention the students of knowledge, and not to mention the scholars. The common people understand them, but despite this many of the intellectuals of the world have erred in respect to them. From this we take a very important principle and it is: The intelligence of a person and his acumen alone is not sufficient. For this reason Shaykh of Islam (Ibn Taymiyyah) may Allah have mercy upon him said about the philosophers: "They were given intelligence but not given righteousness." Thus intelligence alone is not enough, it is a must that intelligence is connected to the Book and the Sunnah, with understanding of the Book and the Sunnah, emanating from the speech of Allah and the speech of His messenger peace be upon him.