Well thanks for agreeing with* something*...lol
wa, allhmdulillah, Jazak Allah khayr - the haqq is haqq and only the people with sick hearts go against haqq.
“Yūsuf ibn Khālid As-Simtī told Abū Hanifah that he was a kāfir for saying witr was wājib, thinking by that he meant it was the same as fardh. Abu Hanīfah stated, “You can’t scare me with your takfīr, since I know that the difference between Fardh and Wājib is like the difference between the heavens and the earth **(al farq bayn al wājib wal-fard**h ka farq mā bayn as-samā’ wal-ardh).”
[Tāj 5:66, and Badā’i` - Beirut: Dār Al Kitāb Al-‘Arabi, 1402/1982 print pages 1:271]
sanad for this please? Even if the Imam (rahimahullah) did say that then as I said the difference is theoritical in addition to the fact that ONLY the ahnaf make the distinction. Even if there is difference between the two terms as the difference between sky and earth, at the end of the day both types are obligations even by the usul of ahnaf. So really when it comes to application, it makes no difference. And this is what I was saying
No it's not only the "mushrik" and "bidati" sufi ashari scholars....you will find many people who find faults in their translation.
may Allah help us.
since it is off-topic please kindly pm the list of all these "so many scholars". I will appreciate that, Jazak Allah khayr. btw, it is not a translation, it is more like mini tafsir kind a thing