The Ruling on Introducing New Expressions in the Attributes of Allah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view regarding those who categorize the attributes into psychological attributes, and who speak of existence, attributes of meaning, and conceptual attributes? Do such attributes exist?
Answer:
O brothers, take this principle in this matter: do not go beyond the expressions of the Salaf. Do not introduce new phrases.
New terms are being coined, and even if a certain contemporary scholar or another says them, do not accept this. The expressions of the Salaf are the scholarly expressions, and the Salaf are ahead of us in this field and more knowledgeable. As far as I know, they did not mention these things. So we restrict ourselves to the expressions of the Salaf: essential attributes and action attributes. This is what they mentioned. Essential attributes are those that are inseparable from the Essence, such as life, knowledge, power, and will. Action attributes are like creation, provision, descent, rising above the Throne, and coming. These are action attributes that Allah negates if He wills (Blessed and Exalted is He). The Shaykh, please proceed.
As for the detailed distinctions and convoluted theories, which were not found in the speech of the Salaf, beware of them and leave them alone, even if the one who says them is a mujtahid (a scholar qualified to derive rulings) and has a high rank in knowledge. But this is a dangerous field and a field of pitfalls, a pitfall of a shadow that holds, so it is not fitting for a person to rely on something from his own mind, even if he claims he wants to clarify and define and wants... Yes. How many people have erred due to these convoluted theories and these innovations that the Salaf did not say and did not speak about? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is your view regarding those who categorize the attributes into psychological attributes, and who speak of existence, attributes of meaning, and conceptual attributes? Do such attributes exist?
Answer:
O brothers, take this principle in this matter: do not go beyond the expressions of the Salaf. Do not introduce new phrases.
New terms are being coined, and even if a certain contemporary scholar or another says them, do not accept this. The expressions of the Salaf are the scholarly expressions, and the Salaf are ahead of us in this field and more knowledgeable. As far as I know, they did not mention these things. So we restrict ourselves to the expressions of the Salaf: essential attributes and action attributes. This is what they mentioned. Essential attributes are those that are inseparable from the Essence, such as life, knowledge, power, and will. Action attributes are like creation, provision, descent, rising above the Throne, and coming. These are action attributes that Allah negates if He wills (Blessed and Exalted is He). The Shaykh, please proceed.
As for the detailed distinctions and convoluted theories, which were not found in the speech of the Salaf, beware of them and leave them alone, even if the one who says them is a mujtahid (a scholar qualified to derive rulings) and has a high rank in knowledge. But this is a dangerous field and a field of pitfalls, a pitfall of a shadow that holds, so it is not fitting for a person to rely on something from his own mind, even if he claims he wants to clarify and define and wants... Yes. How many people have erred due to these convoluted theories and these innovations that the Salaf did not say and did not speak about? Yes.
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