The Position of the People of the Sunnah and the Community on Affirming the Hands and the Face for Allah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community (may Allah have mercy on them) regarding affirming the hands and the face for Allah (Mighty and Majestic)?
Answer:
The people of the Sunnah and the community affirm for Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) what He has affirmed for Himself of names and attributes, and they deny of Allah what He has denied of Himself of deficiencies and defects, in accordance with the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Ash-Shuraa 42:11] This is the methodology upon which the people of the Sunnah and the community proceed. The attributes are of two types: attributes of meaning, such as knowledge, power, and will; and attributes of essence, such as the face, the hands, the feet, and the like. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, what is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community (may Allah have mercy on them) regarding affirming the hands and the face for Allah (Mighty and Majestic)?
Answer:
The people of the Sunnah and the community affirm for Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) what He has affirmed for Himself of names and attributes, and they deny of Allah what He has denied of Himself of deficiencies and defects, in accordance with the saying of Allah the Exalted:
There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (160) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1438-04-13] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (18:57)
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