What is the criterion for the Creator and the created sharing a name or an attribute?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Are there criteria for the Creator and the created sharing a name or an attribute?
Answer:
The Arabic language: they share only in the linguistic meaning, but not in reality. Allah has names specific to Him and attributes specific to Him, and the created beings have names and attributes specific to them. Even if they share in meaning, such as the All-Hearing and the All-Seeing, Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:[Al-Insan 76:2]. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and He said: There is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. They share only in the linguistic meaning, but in terms of reality, they differ and do not resemble each other.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Are there criteria for the Creator and the created sharing a name or an attribute?
Answer:
The Arabic language: they share only in the linguistic meaning, but not in reality. Allah has names specific to Him and attributes specific to Him, and the created beings have names and attributes specific to them. Even if they share in meaning, such as the All-Hearing and the All-Seeing, Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him
إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1563- 4717] ما ضابط اشتراك الخالق والمخلوق في الاسم أو الصفة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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