Principle: What comes to your mind, Allah is the opposite of that
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is this principle in creed correct: what comes to your mind, your Lord is the opposite of that?
The Shaykh:
Correct, its meaning is correct that Allah is other than what you imagine and conceive, because He is greater than everything, so no one can conceive the essence of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), because Allah is greater than everything.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is it permissible to place the hand on the chest during the recitation of the hadith of the evildoers?
The Shaykh:
And for this reason, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:[Taha 20:110] So no one knows Allah (Mighty and Majestic) except Allah (Mighty and Majestic); no one encompasses Him, so He is not conceived by understandings or by minds.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is this principle in creed correct: what comes to your mind, your Lord is the opposite of that?
The Shaykh:
Correct, its meaning is correct that Allah is other than what you imagine and conceive, because He is greater than everything, so no one can conceive the essence of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), because Allah is greater than everything.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you, is it permissible to place the hand on the chest during the recitation of the hadith of the evildoers?
The Shaykh:
And for this reason, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
Allah knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, but they do not encompass it in knowledge.
يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِهِ عِلْمًا
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقد أمرنا بالاقتفاء لآثارهم، والاهتداء بمنارهم — islamhouse.com (1:00:53)
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