Comparing the Fundamentals & the Branches

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Imam Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Karim ibn Huzan al-Qushayri (r.a.) recorded, in his Risalah al-Qushayriyyah, that Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Jurayri (q.s.) said, on the shari’ah, “One observes the fundamentals by implementing its branches, and one tests the soundness of the branches, by comparing them to the fundamentals.  One will never attain to the station of the contemplation of the fundamentals unless one holds in high regard the means and the branches. For Allah (s.w.t.) has Elevated the latter to a high position.”