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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible to supplicate to the attributes of Allah?

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Question : I am not a member of the tribe. Yes. Oh, peace. Yes, indeed.

Answer : No, he does not acknowledge it. I seek refuge in Allah, just as one says, "I seek refuge in You." The face is used to refer to the essence, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ
[Ar-Rahman 55:27]
Is that so?
Likewise, "I seek refuge in the majesty and power of Allah from the evil of what I am proud of and what I fear." Seeking refuge in an attribute of Allah is permissible, or saying, "I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your anger," is permissible. However, if a person says, "O Majesty of Allah, protect me," that is not permissible, because by doing so, he has separated the majesty from Allah, making it the one that acts and wills. But if he seeks refuge in the majesty of Allah, or seeks refuge in His pleasure from His anger, that is seeking nearness to Allah the Mighty and Majestic through this attribute so that Allah will protect him by it. One must distinguish between supplicating to the attribute and making it a means, as in the phrase, "By Your mercy I seek help." It does not mean that the speaker says, "O Mercy of Allah, help me," for that is not permissible. The Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) reported the consensus of the scholars that one who supplicates to an attribute is a disbeliever. As for "By Your mercy I seek help," the meaning is that he sought nearness to Allah by His mercy so that He would help him.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 4044 - 4600 هل يجوز دعاء صفات الله؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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