What is the validity of the statement that the attributes of Allah are essential and existential?
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Question:
Some people say that the attributes of Allah are essential and existential. What is the validity of this statement? And did anyone from the people of the Sunnah hold this view?
Answer:
The attributes of Allah are essential and active. They are not all essential; some are essential and some are active. As for "existential," they are nothing but existential; they are nothing but established. What is not established is not an attribute of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So adding the word "existential" has no basis. Yes. For example, hearing and sight are essential, and the hand and the face are essential attributes. As for creation, provision, giving life, and causing death, these are active attributes. Yes.
Some people say that the attributes of Allah are essential and existential. What is the validity of this statement? And did anyone from the people of the Sunnah hold this view?
Answer:
The attributes of Allah are essential and active. They are not all essential; some are essential and some are active. As for "existential," they are nothing but existential; they are nothing but established. What is not established is not an attribute of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So adding the word "existential" has no basis. Yes. For example, hearing and sight are essential, and the hand and the face are essential attributes. As for creation, provision, giving life, and causing death, these are active attributes. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 169 - ما صحّة القول إن صفات الله ذاتية وثبوتية؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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