A question attributed to you: that you say Allah has eyes?

The questioner : It is attributed to you that you say Allah has eyes?

The Shaykh : This is also... We do not attribute to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) anything except what is established in the Book and the Sunnah, following the methodology of the righteous Salaf. The verse that says was interpreted by our scholars to mean that you are under our supervision and our knowledge. It is not permissible for anyone to attribute to us that we interpret every verse as they suppose. We do not engage in figurative interpretation (ta'wil); in fact, we do not. However, there are some texts where they call the apparent meaning ta'wil, whereas we do not call it ta'wil; rather, it is the reality itself. This verse means nothing but that you are under our supervision, our observation, our knowledge, our support, our care, and similar meanings and attributes by which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is described.
For example, His saying (the Exalted) . When they interpret this verse, they say this is metaphorical (majaz) and a metaphor of omission, with the implied meaning being "ask the people of the town." This interpretation is correct, but we do not call it metaphorical, nor do we call it ta'wil; rather, this is the reality. The meaning of this verse is what every Arab understands without ta'wil. The meaning that comes to mind from the Arabic language is the true meaning. Even if some later scholars agreed to call such speech metaphorical, the early Arabs did not know this type of metaphor, because metaphor, by the admission of those who hold to the distinction between reality and metaphor, is leaving the apparent indication, i.e., departing from the reality due to a circumstance that compelled them to speak in metaphor or ta'wil. But here, when we affirm with the Arab , what is understood from it is that meaning they called metaphorical, meaning that only the correct meaning is understood, which is . Similarly, for example, "the river flowed." In language, the river is the channel in which water flows. They say this is metaphorical, but this is a convention, because when an Arab hears "the river flowed," he does not understand that the channel flowed alone without the water in it; the mind does not conceive of that. Rather, the water flowed in this channel, and the channel is fixed. And so on, there are many such examples. But some people come out with their independent legal reasoning (ijtihad) as they please, and they forbid themselves from exercising ijtihad in what is obligatory for them to reason about. When they hear that we do not speak of metaphor, they say, "Then you are compelled to say by the apparent meaning of His saying (the Exalted) ." And we say what the exegetes said, as we explained to you just now.
This is what I was able to say on the matter.