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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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How do the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) respond to the hadiths that affirm seeing Allah in the Hereafter?

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The questioner : He says: How do the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) respond to the statement of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) that it is clear and distinct, just as the moon is?

The Shaykh : Do you understand? They respond to this by saying that these are ahad (single-narrator) hadiths, and ahad hadiths are not accepted in matters of creed. Do you understand?
This response is not valid, because the hadiths regarding the vision of Allah are among those that reached the level of mutawatir (mass-transmitted) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). We recited two verses for you previously, so let us recite them again: "Whoever lies about me, and whoever builds a house for Allah out of gain, and the vision of intercession from those around him, and wiping over the leather socks, and this after that. Hadi. This after that. Yes, the point is his statement 'and the vision,' so their hadiths are mutawatir (mass-transmitted).
Then they say that the intended meaning is an exaggeration of certainty, meaning you see Him with your hearts as you see the moon with your eyes. This is also tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning), because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the hadiths that will follow: "There is no cloud between you and Him, just as you see the sun with no cloud between you and it." Some of the Salaf (the earliest generations) said: "O Allah, whoever denies seeing You in this world, deprive him of it in the Hereafter." Yes.
Just as
Whoever wears silk in this world will be forbidden from it in the Hereafter, and whoever drinks intoxicants in this world will not drink them in the Hereafter.من لبس الحرير في الدنيا حرمه في الآخرة، ومن شرب الخمر في الدنيا لم يشربها في الآخرة
As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 49:85
, from here. Movement of a bird. Yes. In reality, they do not answer; when they can, they answer these things. But when they are unable, they say: This is an ahad (single-narrator) report and it is not acted upon in matters of creed.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 4305 - 4600 كيف يرد أهل التعطيل على الأحاديث التي تثبت رؤية الله في الآخرة؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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