A commentary on the Tahawiyyah regarding Allah taking Ibrahim as His intimate friend
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: The commentator on the Tahawiyyah, when discussing the author’s statement, “And we say that Allah took Ibrahim as His intimate friend and spoke to Musa directly,” said something to the effect that when Allah took Ibrahim as His intimate friend and he asked Him to grant him a righteous child, and so on, until he said that this child took a portion of his heart, so the intimate friend (Ibrahim) became jealous of his intimate friend (Allah) that there should be a place in it for anyone other than Him, so that the secret of the intimacy would be revealed. Is it permissible to say such a thing about Allah?
Answer:
Yes, this is a correct meaning. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, does not want Ibrahim to take an intimate friend other than Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: The commentator on the Tahawiyyah, when discussing the author’s statement, “And we say that Allah took Ibrahim as His intimate friend and spoke to Musa directly,” said something to the effect that when Allah took Ibrahim as His intimate friend and he asked Him to grant him a righteous child, and so on, until he said that this child took a portion of his heart, so the intimate friend (Ibrahim) became jealous of his intimate friend (Allah) that there should be a place in it for anyone other than Him, so that the secret of the intimacy would be revealed. Is it permissible to say such a thing about Allah?
Answer:
Yes, this is a correct meaning. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, does not want Ibrahim to take an intimate friend other than Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 807- كلام شارح الطحاوية في اتخاذ الله إبراهيم خليلًا - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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