What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (The hand of Allah is above their hands)?

The questioner : Our Shaykh, the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: Some exegetes did not mention anything about it, and some of them say it is the hand of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Should this be considered?

The Shaykh : What is the hand of the Messenger?

The questioner :

The Shaykh : No, it is not the verse, how can it be the hand of the Messenger?

The questioner : Some exegetes say...

The Shaykh : No, my brother, I want to understand it?

The questioner : It means the hand of the Messenger is above their hands.

The Shaykh : Above the hands of whom?

The questioner : Above the hands of those who pledged allegiance and those who made a pact.

The Shaykh : So what does the verse say?

The questioner : So here my question is not finished, my Shaykh, I know that this is invalid.

The Shaykh : So then?

The questioner : I will complete it, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : Please.

The questioner : So should one pay attention to either of the two approaches, meaning the silence or interpreting it as the hand of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), or should it be said regarding it what is said regarding the other names and attributes, that it is a hand for Allah that befits Him, Glorified and Exalted is He, ... We said this meaning is what we delegate and do not expand upon, or is there something else? And may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Of course, we are on the principle, the answer in brief on the principle, but I thought you would bring something new regarding your saying or your mention, of who said the hand of the Messenger; you did not bring anything new regarding who said the hand of the Messenger.

The questioner : ...I have a purpose to record your answer on this passage.
Al-Albani: No, but I want to understand the truth.
Al-Halabi : So that the benefit is complete.

The Shaykh : Is this statement printed?

The questioner : Yes, it is in the tafsir of al-Nasafi.

The Shaykh : Ah, the tafsir of al-Nasafi interprets the hand of Allah as the hand of the Messenger of Allah? Something strange.

The questioner : Yes, and it is like this with all the attributes.

The Shaykh : No, it is not reasonable with all the attributes, you say it is interpreted with all the attributes? No!

The questioner : Yes, that is my intention, it is interpreted with all the attributes.

The Shaykh : Understood, but does it mean meaning the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) rose above?

The questioner : No, of course not.

The Shaykh : It is interpreted, glory be to Allah, in any case, my brother, here we have two issues, meaning this verse does not come out of the verses and hadiths that they call, that they are from the verses of attributes, from the verses of what do they say?

The questioner : The ambiguous.

The Shaykh : The ambiguous, and the hadiths also, so we interpret all of them with the known meaning in the Arabic language, while maintaining the transcendence, meaning the transcendence without likening Allah to creation and without denial of the divine attributes, it is without doubt for our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, if it is established in the verses of His Book and the hadiths of His Prophet that He is above all created things, then He is above all created things with His entire essence, and from the attributes of His essence is His hand, Blessed and Exalted is He; so there is no problem in it, but we delegate as we said more than once, to know the reality of this meaning, we know the meaning, meaning for example we say in observation in reality: the hand of a person is not his eye, and his eye is not his ear and not his hand, and so on to the end, but these attributes are established in him, so likewise we say His hand, Blessed and Exalted is He, is not His ear, not His eye, not His hand, and not any attribute that was mentioned and cited in the Book of Allah, and in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so this is the intended meaning of affirming the linguistic meaning, without inquiring into the how, realizing the how means affirming the difference of one attribute from another, so that we do not fall into the denial of the divine attributes that the people of figurative interpretation fell into, for example: I read long ago in the books of sects and others, So here we say: hearing is not seeing, so they are two attributes for Allah, Mighty and Majestic, not knowledge for example, but it is not asked of us how is His hearing? And how is His seeing? No how, but some of the Mu'tazilah interpreted:
The Shaykh: meaning He is All-Knowing, this is the denial of the divine attributes. So any attribute we affirm without asking how an attribute is, here the hand and the face are from this exact category. Yes.