Combining the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise and it being above the water
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), how do we reconcile the statement that the earth is a covering for Paradise with the statement that He created the heavens and the water, and that the earth is a covering for the water? And how can the Garden of the Flood be the people of Paradise, and the smallest of Paradise?
Answer:
This is from the creation of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and Allah is capable of all things. We do not speak except according to what comes from the evidence. This is from the knowledge of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah. There is no contradiction between the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise and the Throne being above the water; there is no contradiction in that.
Honorable Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), how do we reconcile the statement that the earth is a covering for Paradise with the statement that He created the heavens and the water, and that the earth is a covering for the water? And how can the Garden of the Flood be the people of Paradise, and the smallest of Paradise?
Answer:
This is from the creation of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and Allah is capable of all things. We do not speak except according to what comes from the evidence. This is from the knowledge of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah. There is no contradiction between the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise and the Throne being above the water; there is no contradiction in that.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 12/5 شرح كتاب لمعة الاعتقاد : الشريط الخامس — youtube.com (15:19)
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