Do the Asha'irah believe that Allah is in every place, meaning by His knowledge or by His essence?
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Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Your Eminence, the questioner says: The belief of the Asha'irah is that Allah the Exalted is in every place. Do they mean by this that He is in every place by His essence, or that He is in every place by His knowledge?
Answer:
If they meant that He is in every place by His knowledge, that would be the belief of the people of the Sunnah and the consensus. But they say that He has no place, neither inside nor outside, neither above nor below, neither to the right nor to the left, and so on. This means that their statement ends in nothingness. Yes.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Your Eminence, the questioner says: The belief of the Asha'irah is that Allah the Exalted is in every place. Do they mean by this that He is in every place by His essence, or that He is in every place by His knowledge?
Answer:
If they meant that He is in every place by His knowledge, that would be the belief of the people of the Sunnah and the consensus. But they say that He has no place, neither inside nor outside, neither above nor below, neither to the right nor to the left, and so on. This means that their statement ends in nothingness. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1319- 4717] هل عقيدة الأشاعرة أن الله في كل مكان يقصدون بعلمه أم بذاته؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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