From the explanation of "Al-'Aqeedah al-Tahawiyyah," his statement: "And its interpretation is as Allah - the Exalted - willed and knew"

The Shaykh : After establishing the vision, he said: "And its interpretation is as Allah - the Exalted - willed and knew"; meaning he speaks about the reality of the vision without defining it with a limit, but the matter of this reality is left to Allah - Mighty and Majestic; He is the One who knows it, and we are unable to grasp its essence and reality, then.
-- The questioner : Allow me.

The Shaykh : Please, go ahead.
He says: "And every authentic hadith that has come regarding this from the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him and his family -" is as he said. This is the creed of Imam al-Tahawi, in which he aligns with the people of the Sunnah with extreme clarity; for he takes every authentic hadith without the philosophy of interpretation and restriction, and it is mass-transmitted, rather than just an authentic hadith; every matter that comes in an authentic hadith must be accepted, believed in, and the Messenger - peace be upon him - must be believed in what he said.
"And its meaning - also - is as Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - willed, we do not enter into it with figurative interpretation as the Mu'tazilah did with their opinions, nor do we speculate with our desires." We sit and we ask how; how is it seen? But as Malik said in the famous report attributed to him: "Indeed, none is safe in his religion except the one who submits to Allah - Mighty and Majestic - and His Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him and his family - and refers the knowledge of what is ambiguous to its Knower." What is ambiguous to us in the verse of the vision and the hadiths of the vision? All... the vision and the reality of the vision, not the origin of the vision, for the origin of the vision is not among the ambiguous verses, and likewise all verses and hadiths of the attributes, the hand, the foot, the two hands, and the descent, all these attributes are not among the ambiguous verses, but are among the clear verses, but the ambiguous part of them is their reality and their modality, this reality and this modality is what is ambiguous to us, so we refer it to its Knower, or the Knower of it, who is Allah.

The questioner : Is it likening the seeing or likening the One seen?

The Shaykh- Blessed and Exalted is He.
No.

The questioner : Likening the One seen.

The Shaykh : The seeing of Allah is also the same, whether you say... the seeing of Allah or the One seen, who is Allah; meaning there is no separation between them.

Eid Abbasi : This concerns the issue of those who say: "Allah is limited..."; what is your statement regarding it?

The Shaykh : We stop here at page two hundred and nineteen.
Yes.

The questioner : I think what ... .

The questioner : There is no need ... .

Eid Abbasi : They also touch on a side that is perhaps close to the vision, saying that the phrase "Allah is limited" or "He has a limit"; is that not so? What is your opinion on this?

The Shaykh : What should our opinion be on this? We reject every phrase that has not come in the Book and the Sunnah.

Eid Abbasi : But its implication; is it not correct?

The Shaykh : ... from the legal affirmation, but the Asha'irah - glory be to Allah! - deviated greatly; so they denied the legal and scientific reality together.

The questioner : This is because they took...

The Shaykh : And they began to deny the truth and say: the knife does not cut, and the fire does not burn, and the water does not quench thirst, and the food does not satisfy hunger, but Allah creates quenching at the time of drinking, and satisfaction at the time of eating, and cutting at the time of passing the knife, and burning at the time of lighting the fire, and from these denials, their affair reached the denial of the letter "ba" of causality, which is mentioned in many Qur'anic verses, in addition to the Prophetic hadiths.

The questioner : Okay; we are present, we have the... we cannot descend... this happened.
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The questioner : ... in the ability to speak?

Another questioner : In the ability, yes.

The questioner : Okay; and the fire has the ability to burn, Allah placed in it the ability to burn, what do you mean by that?

Eid Abbasi : Things that are distinguished by...

The questioner : So it is a false statement, it tells you the nature of speech...
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The questioner, so the Messenger whom Allah - Glorified and Exalted is He - reveals regarding the unseen in his life, is it possible after his death as well?
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The Shaykh : I want to guess, Abu Muhammad, just as you guessed...