Doubts Concerning the Hadith of the Divine Descent
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some people in the UAE raise doubts about some of the attributes. First, regarding the hadith of Ibn Junayd, and that He descends in the descent of the last one to the Nile, so they think that He does not retain, in any of His moments, the descent of the last one into a body of the parts of the earth. Second, Allah is the Greatest of all.
Answer:
This is a Satanic philosophy. They measure the Creator by the created. The Creator, (Glorified and Exalted is He), is capable of all things. He is the One who created time. He is the One who created night and day. And He is the One who created the regions. And He is capable of everything. So we affirm what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) affirmed for us, that He descends to the heaven of the world every night when the last third of the night remains. We believe in this and we stop at this limit.
As for opening the doors of questions and problems, that is the affair of the atheists who do not believe the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and who want to raise problems against the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger knows Allah better than they do, and this is from the knowledge of the unseen which Allah revealed to him. So we do not intervene except with what the texts brought, and what is beyond that we leave to Allah (Mighty and Majestic),[Al-Hashr 59:6], as He provides for people in one moment, for the types of provisions and the difference of categories, He hears their supplication in one moment in any place, and He knows, (Glorified and Exalted is He), their needs and fulfills them for them in one moment. So He is the Capable, and this does not occupy Him from that. He is capable of everything. Yes. And also, the question about the Divine Descent and its difference due to the difference of regions and the difference of the third of the night in every region, this is a question about the modality. And we do not enter into the modality. We believe in the attributes and we leave their modality to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), as Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said regarding the rising above the Throne: The rising above the Throne is known, the modality is unknown, belief in it is obligatory, and asking about it is a religious innovation. This is from the religious innovations. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, some people in the UAE raise doubts about some of the attributes. First, regarding the hadith of Ibn Junayd, and that He descends in the descent of the last one to the Nile, so they think that He does not retain, in any of His moments, the descent of the last one into a body of the parts of the earth. Second, Allah is the Greatest of all.
Answer:
This is a Satanic philosophy. They measure the Creator by the created. The Creator, (Glorified and Exalted is He), is capable of all things. He is the One who created time. He is the One who created night and day. And He is the One who created the regions. And He is capable of everything. So we affirm what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) affirmed for us, that He descends to the heaven of the world every night when the last third of the night remains. We believe in this and we stop at this limit.
As for opening the doors of questions and problems, that is the affair of the atheists who do not believe the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and who want to raise problems against the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger knows Allah better than they do, and this is from the knowledge of the unseen which Allah revealed to him. So we do not intervene except with what the texts brought, and what is beyond that we leave to Allah (Mighty and Majestic),
and Allah is over all things competent.
وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 26 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/القنطرة بين الجنة والنار/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (56:56)
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