Ibn Taymiyyah stated that supplication to an attribute is shirk (associating partners with Allah), whereas the hadith says: “O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, I seek refuge in Your mercy”!!
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How do we reconcile what is reported in the hadithJami` at-Tirmidhi 3524Hasan (Darussalam) with what Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah transmitted regarding the consensus that supplication to an attribute is shirk? This is what is meant by supplication to an attribute: “I seek refuge in Your mercy.” This is tawassul (seeking nearness to Allah through a means) to Allah by His attribute of mercy. So this is tawassul, and it is part of His saying, the Exalted: [Al-A'raf 7:180]
Answer:
So call upon Him by it. Yes, tawassul by the attribute is to say, “O Allah, have mercy on me by Your mercy,” or “Have mercy on me by Your mercy,” addressing Allah, Mighty and Majestic. As for supplication to the attribute, where you address the attribute itself, saying, “O Mercy of Allah, have mercy on me,” or “O such-and-such,” no, this is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How do we reconcile what is reported in the hadith
‘O Living, O Self-Sustaining Sustainer! In Your Mercy do I seek relief (Yā Ḥayyu yā Qayyūm, bi-raḥmatika astaghīth).’
يا حي يا قيوم برحمتك أستغيثAnd to Allah belong the best names
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰAnswer:
So call upon Him by it. Yes, tawassul by the attribute is to say, “O Allah, have mercy on me by Your mercy,” or “Have mercy on me by Your mercy,” addressing Allah, Mighty and Majestic. As for supplication to the attribute, where you address the attribute itself, saying, “O Mercy of Allah, have mercy on me,” or “O such-and-such,” no, this is not permissible. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [55 -308] ذكر ابن تيمية أن دعاء الصفة شرك بينما في الحديث: «يا حي يا قيوم برحمتك أستغيث»!! — youtube.com
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