Between the creed of the people of hadith and the Asha'irah and the Maturidiyyah regarding the exaltation of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - .

The Shaykh : The people of hadith, who are the true people of the Sunnah, answer with the answer of the maidservant whom the Messenger - peace be upon him - approved. She said: "In the sky." As for the Asha'irah and the Maturidiyyah - who are among the people of the Sunnah - they do not say what the Messenger - peace be upon him - said; rather, they say what the Lord of the Worlds said: ; . Why do they not say: "Allah is in the sky"? They said - I say they claimed - that if we say "Allah is in the sky," we have placed Him in a place! Glory be to Allah! If you say "Allah is in the sky" and not in the sky as a person is in a room; that is: ; does that mean you have placed Him in the sky? How then do you believe that the believers will see their Lord on the Day of Resurrection as they see the moon on a clear night?! Is this not a seeing - in their own expression - a defining of the seen, which is Allah - Mighty and Majestic?! They say: defining. We do not say: defining; why? Because it is impossible for the small, insignificant one to define the Greater, the Great One. It is impossible for the small one to define the Great One; Allah is greater than everything. Therefore, He - the Exalted - said, pointing to this reality: . The meaning of: is not that eyes do not see Him, otherwise this verse would contradict the verse: , and the mass-transmitted hadiths establishing the seeing of the believers of their Lord in the Hereafter.
The meaning of is not that eyes do not see Him, but rather that "idrak" in language means encompassing, and likewise the opposite; does not mean that they see Him, but rather that they see Him with a seeing of encompassing and comprehension, and the opposite of that; we see Allah - Mighty and Majestic - on the Day of Resurrection, but without encompassing. How can the weak, incapable, insignificant human encompass the Lord of the Worlds with his sight, when He is greater than everything?!
I said: All the people of the Sunnah, including the Asha'irah and the Maturidiyyah, agree that the believers will see Allah on the Day of Resurrection; so we must deny seeing Allah on the Day of Resurrection so that we do not say: "We have defined Him"; because you denied Allah being in the sky, claiming it is a defining of Allah - Mighty and Majestic -; so if we say: Allah is greater than everything, that does not mean comparison, as mentioned in the question; do we compare Him with the created things? No, لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ There is nothing like Him. ; therefore, the Muslim, whom it is obligatory for us in this era to call - whoever they are - a Salafi, the Salafi Muslim does not go astray and does not become wretched, ever, as long as he holds fast to the two foundations: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - . The Book of Allah says: لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.[Ash-Shuraa 42:11] ; so what are you afraid of if you say: "Allah is in the sky"? His being in the sky is not like your being on your land, and this is very clear. I do not want to prolong the discussion on this matter, perhaps there will be another occasion for it; for these questions have taken a lot of our time.
Give us a question from yourself.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: : Go ahead.