The student's remarks on those who deny the names and attributes, disdain learning them, and claim that learning them has no effect on the servant and no relation to the rulings
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The questioner : The question I wanted to raise a few months ago... He said that the oneness of the names and attributes did not exist in the first three centuries of excellence. He also said that the issue of the names and attributes is not the basis for any actions. He also said that they are purely philosophical issues, and the science of theology, and he launched a severe campaign against the callers to the oneness of Allah, claiming that they take the evidence of the people of the Sunnah and the community from the philosophers and make it the oneness of Allah. He gave as an example the al-Wasitiyyah creed of Ibn Taymiyyah and the commentary on the al-Tahawiyyah creed, saying that these are the responses of the people of the Sunnah and the community to the philosophers, and that a person cannot learn them simply; they require a teacher. Meanwhile, the Companions would come to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and learn the Islamic creed from him in five minutes. He said, "I do not know how to affirm that Allah has a hand? Allah is the All-Aware, the Subtle, yes, but He has a hand; I do not know how to affirm that Allah is in the secret. What prevents Allah from being in the sky and in every place?" Is the issue of the oneness of the names and attributes known by the righteous Salaf, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and those with him, with the same precision as we know it today, or is it, as this lecturer claims, that they pass over the texts as they come, meaning they do not stop to contemplate their meanings?
