Combining the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise and it being above the water
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, how do we reconcile the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise with the fact that there is water above the heavens and the Throne is above the water? Also, how can Paradise of Firdaus be the highest part of Paradise and the middle of Paradise?
Answer:
This is from the creation of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He),[At-Talaq 65:12]. We do not speak except according to what comes from the evidence. This is from the knowledge of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah. There is no contradiction between the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise and the Throne being above the water; there is no contradiction in that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, how do we reconcile the Throne being the ceiling of Paradise with the fact that there is water above the heavens and the Throne is above the water? Also, how can Paradise of Firdaus be the highest part of Paradise and the middle of Paradise?
Answer:
This is from the creation of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He),
Allah is over all things competent
اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقال النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لحصين — islamhouse.com (54:25)
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