Clarifying the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted: (Indeed, I am making you a successor on the earth) and explaining the ruling on saying: Successor of Allah?
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The Shaykh : And the verse that addresses Adam: [Al-Baqarah 2:30]:
It does not mean that our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is making him a successor on His behalf, Blessed and Exalted is He, far be it from that. Rather, He made him a successor for a group of jinn who had committed much corruption on the earth. This is what the scholars of tafsir mention, and what Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned specifically regarding this issue, and he mentions something that is good to mention now:
That this phrase was only innovated by some of the extremists of the Sufis who believe in the indwelling or the union, that there is nothing there of a Creator and a created being, no, rather it is a unity. So the human being is the successor of Allah on the earth; this phrase can be applied to the doctrine of those who say in the unity of existence from among the extremists of the Sufis, as for those who magnify...
It is weak in its chain of narration and denounceable in its text.
Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority
إني جاعلك في الأرض خليفةIt does not mean that our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is making him a successor on His behalf, Blessed and Exalted is He, far be it from that. Rather, He made him a successor for a group of jinn who had committed much corruption on the earth. This is what the scholars of tafsir mention, and what Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned specifically regarding this issue, and he mentions something that is good to mention now:
That this phrase was only innovated by some of the extremists of the Sufis who believe in the indwelling or the union, that there is nothing there of a Creator and a created being, no, rather it is a unity. So the human being is the successor of Allah on the earth; this phrase can be applied to the doctrine of those who say in the unity of existence from among the extremists of the Sufis, as for those who magnify...
It is weak in its chain of narration and denounceable in its text.