Informing about Allah with respect to modality and the state of those who follow the methodology of the people of figurative interpretation

The questioner:
Or it mentions things like the creation, or that He has in it three things that He swears by His actions? As for the meeting with Allah, is it from the category of likening?

The Shaykh:
No, this is beyond likening. But informing about Allah that He has a modality, informing about Allah that He has a modality and that He has a body, this is not likening to creation; it is from the category of informing, not from the category of likening. O Messenger of Allah, what is this absent prayer when it is not from Allah the Exalted, or such, or the rising above? Because they grew up with this and thought it was the truth.
This is with respect to the followers. As for those who are not followers, they are their imams. Their intention is misguidance. Nasa ibn Sa'wan and al-Ja'd ibn Dirham, these people intended misguidance, the misguidance of the Ummah, because they inherited this belief from the Jews; they inherited it from the Jews and the Christians.
And they brought it in the form of the beliefs of the Muslims. Their leaders and imams intended misguidance and misleading. But their followers and adherents did not intend misguidance; rather, they thought this was the truth, they studied it, and they thought it was the truth. Indeed, they thought it was the belief that is mentioned in their schools and universities, so they thought it was the truth. Yes.