The Shaykh clarifies to the questioner the correct creed regarding the book "The Book and the Qur'an by Shahrour"
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In the end, I brought up a verse I asked, and he answered with the answer of the masses, unfortunately. And it is strange because he has no Islamic culture. "La ilaha" means "no Creator." I sat down and explained to him the oneness of lordship that the polytheists used to believe in. Believing that this universe has a Creator does not mean that he believed in "There is no god but Allah," because Allah Mighty and Majestic narrated about the polytheists, saying: [Luqman 31:25] Yet He said in another verse: [As-Saffat 37:35] And He said: So, believing that this universe has a Creator is not the same as believing that "There is no god but Allah." And I told him finally, "La ilaha" means "there is no worshipped entity with truth in existence except Allah." I intended to lead him to the creed that distinguishes the Muslim, so that he would not fall into the creed of the unity of existence that the masses of Muslims believe in without explicitly stating it, while the Sufis do state it explicitly. I told him, "We say that all believers say Allah exists. So if a questioner asked this existing Allah, 'Where is He?' he answered with the known misguidance: 'Everywhere.' I told him, 'Place.' This is the logic I adopted from the day I argued some arguments. I was in Mina on a clear night, and some pilgrims were gathered around me, and I was speaking. When an Azhar scholar entered, he sat and listened. He understood from the style of my speech that I was from the group, meaning the Wahhabis, as they claim. So he began to attack, saying, 'You say Allah is in a place above the Throne.' I told him, 'We say Allah is above the Throne, and Allah said: [Taha 20:5] And we entered into this topic. I proceeded with him using this logic that I had discussed with Mukhtar yesterday. I told him, 'Is the place something non-existent or existent?' He said, 'It is not non-existent, nor an illusion; it is something existent.' I told him, 'This is a created thing. Is this place created or uncreated?' He said, 'Created.' But the poor man got entangled and later returned to what he had said when he saw the chain of cause and effect leading to something contrary to what he had said. What did he say? When I asked him, 'Is the place created or not?' he said, 'Created, but it is unlimited.' Allah is the Greatest. I told him, 'The created is unlimited?' He stood up and returned saying, 'I mean the Creator who created... what did He create? The place.' We said to him, 'Okay, we removed the word "what." Is the created unlimited? If it is created, it is limited. Are we agreed on that?' He agreed. We said to him, 'Okay, I wanted to proceed to lead him to the fact that this limited created thing, what is behind it? He felt that I was going to lead him to the conclusion that we say Allah Mighty and Majestic is not present in every place, because Allah is too Great to be in the belly of a created thing that He created. He said to me, 'By Allah, O Shaykh, I see that your words are, I mean, philosophical words.' I told him, 'Indeed, but you are the one who philosophized the issue, and we were forced to enter here, to this point, because you said Allah is in every place. How can the Greatest Allah be in a place that He created after it was non-existent?' He looked at his watch like this and said, 'I mean, I thank you for this discussion, and I hope there will be another session following it.' So I did not want, of course, to pressure him. And they said, 'Let us continue the topic.' So we bid him farewell. The point is...
