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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is this expression correct: that the Throne carries Allah by the power of Allah?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is this expression correct or contrary to the creed: that the Throne carries Allah by His power? I mean, by the power of Allah?

Answer:
It is invalid. Leave it alone. I told you not to answer with words from your own minds and your own understandings. You will end up like these people. If you intervene with your understandings and attribute things from your own minds to the school of the Salaf, then say what they said and leave what they left, for they are more knowledgeable than you and closer to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and further from trials and religious innovations.
Adhere to the school of the Salaf. Say what they said and refrain from what they did not say. Do not answer with anything from your own mind or your own understanding.
And you answer with words regarding Allah that the Salaf did not say, like this one who asks and says that the Throne carries Him by His power. Who said that the Throne carries Allah? This implies disbelief, may Allah protect us from it. Yes, the Honorable Shaykh says.
holds the heavens and the earth, lest they ceaseيُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَن تَزُولَا
[Fatir 35:41]
It is He who holds it, not it that holds Him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [967 -1024] هل هذا التعبير صحيح: إن العرش يحمل الله بقدرة الله؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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