The Belief of the Asha'irah and the Maturidiyyah: Denying the Exaltation of Allah, and Does This Render Them Disbelievers?

The Shaykh : Do many of those who claim to belong to the Sunnah and the community, specifically those who follow the Maturidi or Ash'ari schools, share this particular point with the Mu'tazilah and the extreme Sufis? We say yes. We constantly perceive and hear this in every Sunni society, whether it is not Shi'ah or Mu'tazilah. They say, "Allah is present in every place; Allah is present in every existence." The people of the Sunnah who live among us and live with them say this. If the matter is thus, do we declare these people disbelievers who deny that it is an attribute of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) that He , along with many other texts on which there is consensus that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is above all creation?