The Permanence of the Face and the Permanence of the Other Attributes of Allah

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh. You said that the verse in the statement of Allah the Exalted, "And if it were to become a soothsayer," the intended meaning is not the provision between the face. So, the statement of the one who says, or the thought that occurs to most people, is that if the provision were not established for it, the attributes of the human finger, such as the hand and the knee, and others, would perish.

The Shaykh:
This is not permissible to say regarding Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Allah remains with His attributes, Glorified and Exalted is He, but He specified the Face and singled it out here, and we are speaking about the Face. As for the rest of the attributes, there is no doubt that they remain, because Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, is First without a beginning and Last without an end, with His names and attributes. This does not cross the mind of anyone except a fool or a misleader; either a fool who does not understand, or a misleader who wants to mislead people.

The questioner:
Of course.

The Shaykh:
He says that only the Face of Allah remains, while the rest of His Essence perishes. Exalted is Allah above that. Who says this? I do not think even the ignorant of the people of al-Isfahan would say this.