What is said regarding the Essence of Allah is said regarding His Attributes

The Shaykh : We said that the description of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is also related to His Essence; that is, what is said regarding the Essence of Allah is said regarding His Attributes, in terms of affirmation and transcendence.
The student: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace. In terms of affirmation and transcendence, all believers say that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) exists, but we also exist now. Does the mere sharing of this term lead us to deny one of the two realities? What are the two realities? Divine existence and human existence. If we say Allah exists and we exist, there is a sharing of the term. Does the sharing of the term cause harm? No, the sharing of the term does not cause harm; rather, the sharing of the attribute causes harm. Whoever says that the existence of the human is like the existence of the Creator commits disbelief, which is likening Allah to creation, which Allah denied in the beginning of the verse: "There is nothing like Him." And whoever avoids affirming one of the two existences out of fear of likening Allah to creation falls into what is more dangerous than likening Allah to creation, which is denial of the divine attributes. That is, I will not say that Allah exists. Why? Because I exist. In this case, I have likened the Lord of the Worlds, meaning the existence of the Lord of the Worlds, to my existence. This is likening Allah to creation, and likening Allah to creation is invalid. So I do not say Allah exists. This ruins the entire religion; it denies the existence of the Creator of all that exists. Or one will fall into another misguidance, falling into what is called sophistry, which is denying what the mind rejects by common sense. That is to say, Allah exists without doubt, but I do not exist. This is what the extremists of the Sufis say, where they say that everything you see with your eye is Allah. You are not existing except by the existence of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), so you are a part of Allah. Everything you see with your eye is Allah. This is written in their books. So likening Allah to creation is misguidance, and denial of the divine attributes is more misleading than it. If we say that Allah does not exist because I exist, then this is denial of the divine attributes, and it is the greatest sophistry, and it is atheism and disbelief in the religion of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). No, Allah exists, but I am not existing. Why? Because if we say that I also exist, we fall into the misguidance of likening Allah to creation. So what is the way out? Whether we deny the existence of Allah, which is denial and disbelief, or we deny our own existence, which is also sophistry, stubbornness, and replacing the truths, what is the way out? The way out is "There is nothing like Him." Our Lord exists, but His existence is not like our existence. The existence of Allah is necessary existence, whereas our existence is possible existence. By affirming the difference in the Essence and the Attributes, it is one thing. What you say regarding the Essence is that the Essence of Allah is not like our Essence, and our Essences are not like the Essence of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So there is no prohibition in saying: Allah has an Essence with all the perfect attributes, and likewise the human has an Essence with the attributes appropriate to him. But just as His Essence is not like the Essence of Allah, His attributes are also not like the attributes of Allah, and vice versa. That is, the Essence of Allah is not like our Essence, and His attributes are not like our attributes. This is the way out from the misguidance of denial of the divine attributes, which was reached by the overuse of the field of metaphor, where they contradicted the rule they established by saying: "Metaphor is not resorted to unless the literal meaning is impossible." The verse "Your Lord comes" is a literal meaning that is appropriate to the Essence of Allah, so it is not said that His coming is like our coming. This is possible. So there is no necessity to take the intended literal meaning of the coming related to Allah to metaphor, because just as nothing is like Allah in His Essence, so nothing is like Him in His Attributes. This is the summary of the speech on this issue.
Yes.