Answer to the Doubt Regarding the Descent of Allah in the Last Third of the Night
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the answer to the doubt of the one who says, how is it that Allah is described as being High, which is an attribute of His Essence, and yet He, Glorified and Exalted is He, descends in the last third of the night?
Answer:
This is an attribute of action, and there is no contradiction between an attribute of action and an attribute of the Essence. So even if He descends, He is High above His creation. Glorified and Exalted is He. We did not tell you to inquire into the modality; this is an inquiry into the modality. Allah descends to the lowest heaven, and He is above His creations. Glorified and Exalted is He. What is its meaning? That He abandoned being High? This is a matter for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: how does He descend? Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the answer to the doubt of the one who says, how is it that Allah is described as being High, which is an attribute of His Essence, and yet He, Glorified and Exalted is He, descends in the last third of the night?
Answer:
This is an attribute of action, and there is no contradiction between an attribute of action and an attribute of the Essence. So even if He descends, He is High above His creation. Glorified and Exalted is He. We did not tell you to inquire into the modality; this is an inquiry into the modality. Allah descends to the lowest heaven, and He is above His creations. Glorified and Exalted is He. What is its meaning? That He abandoned being High? This is a matter for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: how does He descend? Yes.
Source
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