The Salaf’s Interpretation of Allah’s Rising Above the Throne
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, regarding His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He)[Al-Furqan 25:59], is this interpreted to mean that He is sitting on the Throne?
Answer:
The Salaf interpreted it with four meanings: He rose, He ascended, He settled, and He went up. For this reason, the scholar Ibn al-Qayyim says in his *al-Nuniyyah*: “They have forty phrases for it, four of which have been obtained by the horseman al-Ta‘an: He settled, and He rose, and He ascended, which contains no denial, and He went up, which is the fourth, and so on.” Yes, so it is: He settled, He rose, He went up. These are the meanings of *istiwa’* (rising above the Throne).
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, regarding His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He)
and then established Himself above the Throne
ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى الْعَرْشِAnswer:
The Salaf interpreted it with four meanings: He rose, He ascended, He settled, and He went up. For this reason, the scholar Ibn al-Qayyim says in his *al-Nuniyyah*: “They have forty phrases for it, four of which have been obtained by the horseman al-Ta‘an: He settled, and He rose, and He ascended, which contains no denial, and He went up, which is the fourth, and so on.” Yes, so it is: He settled, He rose, He went up. These are the meanings of *istiwa’* (rising above the Throne).
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [557 -1024] تفسير السلف لاستواء الله على العرش - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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