The Sharedness of Attribute Names Between the Creator and the Created
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it correct to respond to the one who likens Allah to creation in the chapter of attributes by saying that it is merely a similarity of names?
Answer:
Names and meanings, yes. The names of Allah and the names of the created beings share the same wording and the same general meanings, but the realities and the modes are specific to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The external reality and the mode are specific to Allah, while the meaning and the wording are shared. This is what they call mutawati (shared terms), or mutawati evidence. Mutawati is that which agrees in wording and meaning but differs in reality and mode. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it correct to respond to the one who likens Allah to creation in the chapter of attributes by saying that it is merely a similarity of names?
Answer:
Names and meanings, yes. The names of Allah and the names of the created beings share the same wording and the same general meanings, but the realities and the modes are specific to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The external reality and the mode are specific to Allah, while the meaning and the wording are shared. This is what they call mutawati (shared terms), or mutawati evidence. Mutawati is that which agrees in wording and meaning but differs in reality and mode. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 23 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/إجماع سلف الأمة/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (56:48)
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