How do we respond to those who say: We do not affirm a hand for Allah so that the listener does not imagine a likeness to the created?

The questioner : I saw in some books of the poets, and they say, meaning, we affirm the attribute for Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, but we saw that some people have some arrogance, and also some, meaning, they affirm hands for Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, not like the hands of people. Meaning, they ask me, they ask me: one has a black hand, like a Sudanese, or like an Abyssinian, or like a white person. So we took the meaning of commitment, and this meaning is not the meaning

The Shaykh : This is simple. We say: We do not affirm a hand that is similar; we affirm a hand that is not similar.

The questioner : Meaning, he is trying.

The Shaykh : And we do not say it is black or white; that is forbidden.

The questioner : Meaning, if we take this word in a balanced way,

The Shaykh : Originally, it is not necessary for the difference between the Creator and the created to be committed to, if there were a similarity between the Creator and the created. If I say, for example, so-and-so has a hand, and so-and-so is a human being, I know that this man's hand is like the other man's hand because the species is the same. But if the species differs, if I say so-and-so has a hand, I cannot imagine that his hand is like the hand of an elephant or the hand of an ant, for example; I do not imagine it. So if we say Allah has a real hand, we cannot imagine that it is like our hands at all.

The questioner : And so he said, no, this is known among our scholars, and to the colleagues, do not say it to the truth.

The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah.

The questioner : So that he does not remain silent, or this.

The Shaykh : Leave the ignorant ones alone, but let them be on their belief. Do not bring an old, uneducated woman who knows nothing but the sun and the moon, who would read the Qur'an and take it at its apparent meaning. She does not know this figurative interpretation. We say: Do not open this door to the common people at all.
Therefore, it is recommended for the student of knowledge, and pay attention to this, that the issues of the attributes are not discussed with the common people. As 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Inform the people of what they know. Do you want Allah and His Messenger to be lied about?" And Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You will not inform a people of a report that their minds do not reach except that it will be a trial for some of them." You come to the common person, for example, and you talk about something of the attributes, especially the descriptive attributes, and he will take it as likening immediately, always. Meaning, even in what came in the Sunnah, when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "He grasps the heavens with His right hand and the earth, and He shakes it," and He shook His hand, in the common person's view, I see that you should not do it, I see that you should not do it. Because what does the scholar imagine? Immediately he imagines that the hand of Allah, the Exalted, is like the hand of a human being. So the issues where the harm is feared to be greater than the benefit, you say, even though the benefit will be achieved without this.