The ruling on saying: “I ask You by Your names and Your attributes”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Is it permissible for the one making supplication to say, “O Allah, I ask You by Your most beautiful names and Your exalted attributes”? Is this, is this supplication considered supplication by attributes?
Answer:
No, not by “Your attributes.” By “Your attributes” is tawassul (seeking nearness to Allah through a means) to Allah. The ba (preposition) in “by Your attributes” is the ba of tawassul. This tawassul to Allah the Exalted is like saying, “By Your mercy, I seek help, and from Your punishment, I seek relief.” This is the hadith “By Your mercy.” Yes. And what is an example of the prohibited supplication by attributes? It would be saying, “O Face of Allah,” “O Mercy of Allah,” and the like. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Is it permissible for the one making supplication to say, “O Allah, I ask You by Your most beautiful names and Your exalted attributes”? Is this, is this supplication considered supplication by attributes?
Answer:
No, not by “Your attributes.” By “Your attributes” is tawassul (seeking nearness to Allah through a means) to Allah. The ba (preposition) in “by Your attributes” is the ba of tawassul. This tawassul to Allah the Exalted is like saying, “By Your mercy, I seek help, and from Your punishment, I seek relief.” This is the hadith “By Your mercy.” Yes. And what is an example of the prohibited supplication by attributes? It would be saying, “O Face of Allah,” “O Mercy of Allah,” and the like. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 03 من 11/شرح كتاب نواقض الإسلام/من جعل بينه وبين الله وسائط/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:48)
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