Is it permissible to ask about the attributes of Allah that are not mentioned in the Book or the Sunnah?

Question:
Creed is everything. Does our Lord have a nose, a tongue, a thigh, a leg, or an ear? Because we are asking about that.

Answer:
The attributes are based on what is transmitted. Allah is not described except as He has described Himself, or as His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) described Him in His Sunnah, or as the Muslims have agreed upon. No one has the right to invent an attribute that the Shari'ah has not mentioned. Nor will Allah be described with anything other than what the Shari'ah has mentioned by the consensus of the Muslims. Thus, it is incumbent upon the servants to describe Allah with what He described Himself with in His great Book, or with what He described Him with through His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in the Sunnah. They have no right to add to that. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) described Himself as All-Hearing and All-Seeing, but He did not describe Himself as having an ear or a nose or the like. So we remain silent about what Allah has remained silent about, and we do not affirm anything that Allah has not affirmed. We say that He is All-Hearing and All-Seeing and that He has an eye, as He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said, "And be patient, for you are under Our eyes." And we say that He (Glorified and Exalted is He) speaks when He wills, but He did not inform us that He has a tongue, or that He has such and such. Rather, we say as He said: He speaks when He wills. He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said: They change it, they alter the words of Allah. The Messenger said, "This is the word of my Lord." So the point is that He informed us that He speaks, so we say as He said, and we do not add. We do not say He has a tongue, hands, or such and such. No, by Allah, He is free from resembling the created beings. There is nothing like Him. The reason is that He is All-Seeing, so it is not permissible for us to describe Him except with something that came in the Qur'an or is authentic in the Sunnah from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Whoever adds to that, we say: We do not say it, nor do we affirm it for our Lord. Rather, we remain silent about it. We affirm what Allah and His Messenger affirmed, we deny what Allah and His Messenger denied, and we remain silent about what Allah and His Messenger remained silent about. It came in the Sunnah that it is not narrated on the Day when it is asked of Him. He has a measure. The Qur'an has a hand. So whatever came in the Qur'an and the Sunnah is affirmed for Allah from the additional attributes. As for the addition, whoever adds from the addition, from