Combining the Prohibition of Likening Allah to Creation with Understanding the Attributes in the Language of the Arabs
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Question:
A questioner says: We know that likening Allah to creation in His essential attributes is forbidden, and that the Shari'ah is not understood except in the language of the Arabs. How do you reconcile this? Knowing that the Arabs understand, for example, the hand, it occurs to me that the Hand of Allah is similar to our hands, even if it is not exactly like them.
Answer:
What do you want with this talk? Leave this talk. It is obligatory for you to have faith and follow the path of the righteous Salaf, and leave these nonsense things. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
A questioner says: We know that likening Allah to creation in His essential attributes is forbidden, and that the Shari'ah is not understood except in the language of the Arabs. How do you reconcile this? Knowing that the Arabs understand, for example, the hand, it occurs to me that the Hand of Allah is similar to our hands, even if it is not exactly like them.
Answer:
What do you want with this talk? Leave this talk. It is obligatory for you to have faith and follow the path of the righteous Salaf, and leave these nonsense things. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ 1438هـ ]، الإيمان بما وصف الرسول - صلى الله عليه وسلم - به ربه — islamhouse.com (44:23)
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