The Difference Between Creation and Command
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, why did they distinguish between creation and command? And does anything follow from that?
The Shaykh:
Creation is not command, my brother. Creation is bringing into existence and forming, whereas command is the Shari'ah that Allah the Exalted revealed to His messengers. This is the command. So the One who creates is the One who commands.[Al-A'raf 7:54]?
The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It does not create; it has no command. Idols, shrines, and graves do not create, so they have no command or prohibition, no legislation, no making lawful, and no making forbidden.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, why did they distinguish between creation and command? And does anything follow from that?
The Shaykh:
Creation is not command, my brother. Creation is bringing into existence and forming, whereas command is the Shari'ah that Allah the Exalted revealed to His messengers. This is the command. So the One who creates is the One who commands.
Unquestionably, His is the creation and the command
أَلَا لَهُ الْخَلْقُ وَالْأَمْرُThe presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It does not create; it has no command. Idols, shrines, and graves do not create, so they have no command or prohibition, no legislation, no making lawful, and no making forbidden.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 14/12 شرح تجريد التوحيد/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (46:10)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.