The Difference Between What Is Impossible in Itself and What Is Impossible by Custom
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is the power of Allah the Exalted limited only to what is possible? And what is the difference between the impossible and the possible?
Answer:
We told you previously that power encompasses the obligatory and the possible. As for the impossible, it is of two types: impossible in itself. This is not subject to power because it is not a thing. What is impossible in itself is not a thing, such as the existence of a creator alongside Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He). This is impossible, and it is not a thing; there is no creator alongside Allah. As for what is impossible by custom. What is impossible by custom means that, by the custom of people, it may come a time when it is no longer impossible. So Allah is able to do it, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is the power of Allah the Exalted limited only to what is possible? And what is the difference between the impossible and the possible?
Answer:
We told you previously that power encompasses the obligatory and the possible. As for the impossible, it is of two types: impossible in itself. This is not subject to power because it is not a thing. What is impossible in itself is not a thing, such as the existence of a creator alongside Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He). This is impossible, and it is not a thing; there is no creator alongside Allah. As for what is impossible by custom. What is impossible by custom means that, by the custom of people, it may come a time when it is no longer impossible. So Allah is able to do it, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
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الفرق بين المستحيل والممكن — alfawzan.live
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