The doubt that affirming the Highness and Rising above the Throne necessitates Allah’s need for His creation
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: How do we answer this doubt, which is that saying that Allah is in the sky or that He is rising above His Throne implies that Allah is in need of His creations? He says: How do we answer this matter?
Answer:
The Throne is in need of Allah. He is the One holding the Throne[Fatir 35:41]. In the sense that no one holds them after Him. So the Throne and the heavens are in need of Allah. He is the One who holds them. They are not the ones carrying Him. Whoever thinks, and this will come to you in this message, whoever thinks that His being on the Throne means that the sky carries Him or shades Him, that person is among the most ignorant of people. It does not carry Him and it does not shade Him. He is free of need of them, Glorified and Exalted is He.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: How do we answer this doubt, which is that saying that Allah is in the sky or that He is rising above His Throne implies that Allah is in need of His creations? He says: How do we answer this matter?
Answer:
The Throne is in need of Allah. He is the One holding the Throne
Indeed, Allah holds the heavens and the earth, lest they cease. And if they should cease, no one could hold them
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَن تَزُولَا وَلَئِن زَالَتَا إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 30-01-1438هـ — alfawzan.live (44:42)
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