The  sources  for  the  creed  ('aqeedah)  are -   The  Book  of  Allaah,  the authentic   Sunnah   of   His   Messenger   sallallaahu   'alayhi   wa   sallam  and   the consensus (ijmaa') of the Pious Predecessors, Everything that has been authentically reported from Allaah's Messenger sallallaahu  'alayhi  wa  sallam must  be accepted,  even if it has been reported by way of a single solitary transmitted narration (aahaad), In order to understand the Book and the Sunnah we refer to those texts, which explain others, the understanding of the Pious Predecessors and those scholars who followed their methodology, and then what is correct from the language point of view. However, we do not reject something established due to a possible (alternate) language meaning, All  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  Religion  were  explained  by  the Prophet   sallallaahu  'alayhi  wa  sallam.  It  is  not  for  anyone  to  later  innovate something and then claim it is part of the Religion,   Submission  to  Allaah  and  His  Messenger  sallallaahu  'alayhi  wa  sallam both outwardly and inwardly, So neither the Book, nor the authentic Sunnah is to be   opposed   or   contradicted   by   an   analogy   (qiyaas),   personal   spiritual experience (dhawq), spiritual intuition (kashf), nor the saying of any shaykh

or scholar, nor by the likes of these.