The Shaykh Shuqra (may Allah have mercy on him) explains the state of some university professors who confuse students regarding the attributes of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He).

Shuqra: Our Shaykh, if you would permit me.

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Shuqra: We have heard a strange statement in these days attributed to some professors and doctors teaching in some colleges. They use it to mislead our brother students who are upon the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah. They tell them: Look at how the creed of the pious predecessors that you claim, and that you are eager to uphold and defend and act upon,

The Shaykh: There is no god but Allah...
Shuqra: Look, this creed is one that takes one out of the religion, may Allah protect us from that.

The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest...
Shuqra: How is that? He said: You say that Allah has a Face, that Allah has a Hand, and that He has a Leg. Are these not limbs? Are these not organs? So if they are organs, how do you say that they are attributes? Naturally, the one who says this sits in the professor's chair and dictates his opinions without accepting any discussion of them, not even from one of the students of knowledge who may have some knowledge to answer this question. Can you imagine how their hatred reaches the point where they say this statement to prove that this creed by which we declare our faith in Allah, and by which we believe that He is free from all imperfections, even though He has described Himself with these attributes, is such that there is nothing like Him? They also want to confuse people and attribute to the pious predecessors the claim that they say Allah has limbs, that He has a hand, a face, a tongue, a leg, and so on. Therefore, beware of such a statement that confuses, perhaps, the ignorant among the students of knowledge. And I am asking my Shaykh's permission now to say that when we say "hand" and "face," if we say "the Hand of Allah" or "the Leg of Allah," we know that this word is not a description in itself, or is not the description. Rather, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is described as having a Hand, as having a Face, and as having such and such. As for it being said that this hand is an attribute, this is a refutation of those people. And we disavow ourselves, and we disavow our Shuyukh, and we disavow our pious predecessors from such a false creed that they attribute to the creed of the predecessors, may Allah protect us from that.

The Shaykh: Excuse me, I ask for clarification of the difference between this and that, because it is not clear.

The questioner: You, our Shaykh, please proceed.

The Shaykh: No, no, I do not want us to benefit from...

The questioner: Excuse me, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.

The questioner: I say that if we say that attributing the Hand to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is attributing an attribute, we do not attribute to Allah a hand as a limb or as an organ. Because if we say that we attribute the hand to Allah as a limb or an organ, we would then say that we are among those who ascribe a body to Allah and those who liken Allah to creation, and that we say what those who oppose this creed say. Rather, we say that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is described as having a Hand, as having a Leg, and as having such and such. That is it.