Dividing the attributes into essential, action, and essential-action
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what do you say about dividing the attributes into essential, action, and essential-action, with examples? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
Essential-action is a known category, but dividing them into essential attributes, such as the Face, the Hands, the Fingers, and the Foot as mentioned in the hadith, these are essential, and the Self as you heard. As for the action attributes, they are like descending, coming, rising above the Throne, creating, providing sustenance, giving life, and causing death; these are action attributes. As for essential-action, I do not know of anything from this. Yes.
The questioner:
And for the sake of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and your error, may Allah forgive you.
The Shaykh:
Is this from the artificiality that some sinners create? Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what do you say about dividing the attributes into essential, action, and essential-action, with examples? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
Essential-action is a known category, but dividing them into essential attributes, such as the Face, the Hands, the Fingers, and the Foot as mentioned in the hadith, these are essential, and the Self as you heard. As for the action attributes, they are like descending, coming, rising above the Throne, creating, providing sustenance, giving life, and causing death; these are action attributes. As for essential-action, I do not know of anything from this. Yes.
The questioner:
And for the sake of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and your error, may Allah forgive you.
The Shaykh:
Is this from the artificiality that some sinners create? Yes.
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقد أمرنا بالاقتفاء لآثارهم، والاهتداء بمنارهم — islamhouse.com (55:20)
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