The Position Toward the Asha'irah Who Deny the Exaltation of Allah
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is our position toward the Asha'irah who deny that Allah is in the sky, even though they claim to be people of the Sunnah?
The Shaykh:
You have no way to deal with them, but explain it to them, perhaps some of them will repent and return. As for you changing them from being Asha'irah, that is difficult.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says:
The Shaykh:
Ash'ari is innocent. Do you see that Ash'ari is innocent of this? They lied about him, because Ash'ari, at the end of his life, explicitly stated that he was on the madhhab of Imam Ahmad, as in his letter to the people of al-Thaghr, and in his book al-Ibanah 'an Usul al-Din, and in al-Maqalat al-Islamiyyah wa Ikhtilaf al-Musallin, where he mentioned that he is on the 'aqidah of Imam Ahmad, and that he says what Imam Ahmad says. This is the last thing that came from him (may Allah have mercy on him). And the Asha'irah today are not on his madhhab; they are on his madhhab before he recanted when he was with the Kullabiyyah. But when he recanted, they left him and remained on the madhhab of the Kullabiyyah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is our position toward the Asha'irah who deny that Allah is in the sky, even though they claim to be people of the Sunnah?
The Shaykh:
You have no way to deal with them, but explain it to them, perhaps some of them will repent and return. As for you changing them from being Asha'irah, that is difficult.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says:
The Shaykh:
Ash'ari is innocent. Do you see that Ash'ari is innocent of this? They lied about him, because Ash'ari, at the end of his life, explicitly stated that he was on the madhhab of Imam Ahmad, as in his letter to the people of al-Thaghr, and in his book al-Ibanah 'an Usul al-Din, and in al-Maqalat al-Islamiyyah wa Ikhtilaf al-Musallin, where he mentioned that he is on the 'aqidah of Imam Ahmad, and that he says what Imam Ahmad says. This is the last thing that came from him (may Allah have mercy on him). And the Asha'irah today are not on his madhhab; they are on his madhhab before he recanted when he was with the Kullabiyyah. But when he recanted, they left him and remained on the madhhab of the Kullabiyyah. Yes.
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