The ruling on affirming the attribute of harm for Allah the Exalted
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In the Qudsi hadith, "My son Adam harms Me," is this a matter of information or a matter of attributes?
The Shaykh:
How are the attributes?
The questioner:
He says: So do we affirm the attribute of harm for Allah as it came in the hadith?
The Shaykh:
It is among the attributes of Allah. The one who harms is the created being; he is the one who harms Allah, so it is an attribute of the created being. Allah is harmed but not damaged, (Glorified and Exalted is He). There is a difference between being harmed and being damaged. Allah is not damaged, but He is harmed.[Al-Ahzab 33:57] a humiliating punishment. And He, (Mighty and Majestic), says: "My son Adam harms Me by cursing time, and I am time. I turn the night and the day." Time is a period; it has no share in what happens. So the harm returns to Allah, (Mighty and Majestic), who manages time and directs it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In the Qudsi hadith, "My son Adam harms Me," is this a matter of information or a matter of attributes?
The Shaykh:
How are the attributes?
The questioner:
He says: So do we affirm the attribute of harm for Allah as it came in the hadith?
The Shaykh:
It is among the attributes of Allah. The one who harms is the created being; he is the one who harms Allah, so it is an attribute of the created being. Allah is harmed but not damaged, (Glorified and Exalted is He). There is a difference between being harmed and being damaged. Allah is not damaged, but He is harmed.
Indeed, those who abuse Allah and His Messenger - Allah has cursed them in this world and the Hereafter and prepared for them
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُؤْذُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ
Source
الأذى المذكور في حديث: (يؤذيني ابن آدم) — alfawzan.live
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