The ruling on the figurative interpretation (ta'wil) of the verse "The hand of Allah is above their hands"

The questioner : Welcome, may Allah keep you safe. Our Shaykh, I would like to ask you a question, may Allah keep you safe. Please go ahead. Our Shaykh, one of the doctors of Shari'ah here was asked about an issue, which of course relates to the issue of the attributes. He said to him: Now, regarding the attributes, for example, the saying of Allah the Exalted: He asked: Is it possible for us to interpret this verse figuratively? The doctor answered and said: In this verse, we affirm the true meaning, and this does not prevent us from affirming the other meaning, meaning that we affirm that Allah the Mighty and Majestic has a real hand, and at the same time we affirm that the intended meaning in the verse, or one of the other meanings of the verse, is grace or power, or so on.

The Shaykh : No, here it is not possible to interpret the hand as meaning grace. Rather, the correct way to direct this doctor's statement is to say that the hand here is an attribute of Allah, but that it does not negate that it is a metaphor here for power, for power, not grace.

The questioner : Yes, I brought up an example, I mean.

The Shaykh : The important thing is that this is the answer.

The questioner : Yes, I mean, this is a correct statement, generally speaking.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.

The questioner : But our Shaykh, this is not called ta'wil (figurative interpretation).

The Shaykh : No, no, ta'wil is when the word is diverted from its literal meaning to its figurative meaning. But if it is said to be both literal and figurative, then there is no ta'wil.

The questioner : Yes, indeed.

The Shaykh : You quoted him as saying: We affirm for Allah the attribute of the hand, but we do not negate that it may mean grace, but at the same time there is an affirmation of the hand. So we say here that the hand of Allah is above their hands is the literal truth, but it does not contradict the figurative meaning.

The questioner : Fine, our Shaykh, in another question if you allow, the issue of qiyas (analogical reasoning), is it a proof?

The Shaykh : Qiyas is a proof, first, as you know, if there is no explicit text from the Book or the Sunnah or the consensus of the Ummah. Second, if it is an obvious qiyas. And third, and finally, if it is for dire necessity (darurah) and not for expansion in establishing a Shari'ah ruling that we are not in need of, because Imam al-Shafi'i says that qiyas is a dire necessity.

The questioner : Yes, fine, I mean, one does not expand in the door of qiyas, it is, I mean, in...