The reason the innovators deny seeing Allah in the Hereafter and their excuse of independent legal reasoning
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Why did the innovators deny the seeing of Allah in the hereafter? And is it true that their intention with that is to magnify and revere Him, Glorified and Exalted is He, but they took the wrong path, so they are excused?
The Shaykh:
This is misguidance, and may Allah protect us from it. This statement is misguidance. I mean, those who denied the seeing of Allah are not excused, and they are not exercising independent legal reasoning. They have no right to exercise independent legal reasoning in matters of creed. There is no independent legal reasoning in creed. Seeing Allah is among the matters of creed, and there is no independent legal reasoning in creed. Independent legal reasoning is in matters of jurisprudence, whereas creed is based on what is revealed. So they denied the seeing just as they deny the other attributes of Allah the Exalted. They say He does not speak, He is not seen, He does not see, He does not hear, and so on. This means non-existence; He is non-existent, and may Allah protect us from this. This is the statement of the Jahmiyyah and those who followed their school from the Mu'tazilah and the Asha'irah, and those who adopted their school or part of it. All of them are on this position. This is diminishing Allah the Exalted; it is not exalting Allah. Diminishing is what strips Allah of His names and attributes. It may be diminishing Allah the Exalted because these are attributes of perfection, and the names are the Most Beautiful Names.[Al-A'raf 7:180] So these people are not exalting Allah; they are diminishing Allah the Exalted, and they are not exercising independent legal reasoning. Independent legal reasoning is in matters of jurisprudence, whereas the foundation of creed is on revelation and evidence, and there is no room for the shepherd in it.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In His saying, Glorified and Exalted is He, to Moses (peace be upon him).
The Shaykh:
Now they strip away the names and attributes, and you say they are exalting Allah? They say this. They strip away the names and attributes of Allah and make Him incapable. They make His power incapable, and you say this is exalting Allah? This is a reversal, and may Allah protect us from it, and a reversed understanding. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Why did the innovators deny the seeing of Allah in the hereafter? And is it true that their intention with that is to magnify and revere Him, Glorified and Exalted is He, but they took the wrong path, so they are excused?
The Shaykh:
This is misguidance, and may Allah protect us from it. This statement is misguidance. I mean, those who denied the seeing of Allah are not excused, and they are not exercising independent legal reasoning. They have no right to exercise independent legal reasoning in matters of creed. There is no independent legal reasoning in creed. Seeing Allah is among the matters of creed, and there is no independent legal reasoning in creed. Independent legal reasoning is in matters of jurisprudence, whereas creed is based on what is revealed. So they denied the seeing just as they deny the other attributes of Allah the Exalted. They say He does not speak, He is not seen, He does not see, He does not hear, and so on. This means non-existence; He is non-existent, and may Allah protect us from this. This is the statement of the Jahmiyyah and those who followed their school from the Mu'tazilah and the Asha'irah, and those who adopted their school or part of it. All of them are on this position. This is diminishing Allah the Exalted; it is not exalting Allah. Diminishing is what strips Allah of His names and attributes. It may be diminishing Allah the Exalted because these are attributes of perfection, and the names are the Most Beautiful Names.
And to Allah belong the best names
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In His saying, Glorified and Exalted is He, to Moses (peace be upon him).
The Shaykh:
Now they strip away the names and attributes, and you say they are exalting Allah? They say this. They strip away the names and attributes of Allah and make Him incapable. They make His power incapable, and you say this is exalting Allah? This is a reversal, and may Allah protect us from it, and a reversed understanding. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 25-10-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (50:59)
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