The ruling on refuting the one who likens Allah to creation in the chapter of attributes
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is it valid to refute the one who likens Allah to creation in the chapter of attributes, since it is only a similarity of names?
Answer:
Names and meanings, yes. The names of Allah and the names of created things share the same wording and the same general meanings, but the realities and the specific natures are unique to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), an external reality. As for the meaning and the wording, they are shared. This is what they call mutawa'if (convergent) evidence. Mutawa'if is that which agrees in its wording and its meaning but differs in its reality and its modality.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is it valid to refute the one who likens Allah to creation in the chapter of attributes, since it is only a similarity of names?
Answer:
Names and meanings, yes. The names of Allah and the names of created things share the same wording and the same general meanings, but the realities and the specific natures are unique to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), an external reality. As for the meaning and the wording, they are shared. This is what they call mutawa'if (convergent) evidence. Mutawa'if is that which agrees in its wording and its meaning but differs in its reality and its modality.
Source
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