Is it correct to say that applying the term tawhid (the oneness of Allah) to what the hypocrites believe is a figurative application?
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He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it correct to say that applying the term tawhid (the oneness of Allah) to what the hypocrites believe is a figurative application? It is tawhid in wording, tawhid in wording, not in belief. The tawhid of the hypocrites is tawhid in wording and appearance, not in belief.
Answer:
Yes. As for figurative, figurative and real, that is another matter. This is with the rhetoricians, that speech is divided into real and figurative, and the figurative is divided into figurative by implication, and into allusion, and into, and into, and so on.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it correct to say that applying the term tawhid (the oneness of Allah) to what the hypocrites believe is a figurative application? It is tawhid in wording, tawhid in wording, not in belief. The tawhid of the hypocrites is tawhid in wording and appearance, not in belief.
Answer:
Yes. As for figurative, figurative and real, that is another matter. This is with the rhetoricians, that speech is divided into real and figurative, and the figurative is divided into figurative by implication, and into allusion, and into, and into, and so on.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [35 -521] هل يصح أن نقول: إن إطلاق لفظ التوحيد على ما يعتقده المنافقون إنه إطلاق مجازي؟ - الفوزان — youtube.com
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