Seeking Nearness to Allah Through His Face and the Light of His Face
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is your view on the words of the poet (may Allah have mercy on him): “By the life of Your face, I ask for good, and by the light of Your face, O One of great status”?
Answer:
What is the problem? What is the issue? Is supplication to Allah seeking nearness to Him through His attributes, through the light of His Face? This is among His attributes, Glorified and Exalted is He. And through His Face? This is seeking nearness to Allah through His attributes. This is commanded by the Shari'ah: seeking nearness to Allah through His names and attributes is commanded. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-A'raf 7:180] He sought nearness to Him through His great Face and the light of His Face. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated with all of this, and this is the prescribed seeking of nearness.
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is your view on the words of the poet (may Allah have mercy on him): “By the life of Your face, I ask for good, and by the light of Your face, O One of great status”?
Answer:
What is the problem? What is the issue? Is supplication to Allah seeking nearness to Him through His attributes, through the light of His Face? This is among His attributes, Glorified and Exalted is He. And through His Face? This is seeking nearness to Allah through His attributes. This is commanded by the Shari'ah: seeking nearness to Allah through His names and attributes is commanded. Allah the Exalted said:
And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا
Source
شرح نونية ابن القيم [64] — alfawzan.live (1:12:07)
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