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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is Allah's rising above the Throne such that the Throne carries Him?

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Question : Does Allah (Mighty and Majestic), by His rising above the Throne, have the Throne as a support carrying Him, as one of us sits upon a bed?

Answer : The answer is no, it is not so, because if we said that it carries Him as a bed carries one of us, it would follow from this that He is in need of the Throne, and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is free from need of everything, and everything is in need of Him.
So we cannot say that the Throne carries Allah, ever, for Allah is too great to be carried by any of His creations. But it is He whom Allah has singled out for Himself with the rising above only, whereas as for being carried by it, no, by Allah, it does not carry Him.
It does not carry Him, because if we said that, it would lead to a defective meaning that the Qur'an does not indicate, which is His need for it, as our need for a bed. For this reason, the scholars said that the Throne does not carry Allah in the sense that He is not in need of it as one of us is in need of a bed upon which he sits; and the bed we sit on, if it were removed from under us, we would fall. Yes, indeed.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [219] هل استواء الله على العرش بأن يكون العرش حاملاً له؟ - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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