Al-Albani's View Regarding the Position of Reason in Religious Knowledge

Considerable emphasis of the Qur'an and Sunnah on the role of reason in guiding people indicates the significance of this gift of God. Since there is a heated debate among theologians and the Salafis about authority of reason and Albania, on the other hand, is one of the Salafi leaders who has his own school and followers, we decided to investigate and explain reason from Albani's perspective and display the weaknesses of his view. Research shows that Albani has not proposed a specific definition for reason; he believes that reason is twofold: real reason and virtual reason. In his view, narrations are virtual reason because David Bin Mahbar is present there in the chain of the narrators of most of the narrations about reason. Albani believes that God cannot be known by reason and common sense is not supposed to conflict with reliable and authentic narrations. Thus, good and evil are originated in Shar'a not reason.