In the hadith of Allah descending to the lowest heaven in the last third of the night, does it imply that there is nothing above Allah when He descends to the lowest heaven?

The questioner : We know that Allah is the Manifest, so there is nothing above Him. The hadith of the descent states that Allah descends in the last third of the night to the lowest heaven. Do we understand from the hadith of the descent that there is nothing above Allah when He descends to the lowest heaven?

The Shaykh : Certainly, that is the understanding. That is, when our Lord descends to the lowest heaven, we must not forget the rule we mentioned earlier, which is that Blessed and Exalted is He . It is not permissible for a Muslim to imagine, when reading or hearing this hadith which includes the divine descent, that His descent, Blessed and Exalted is He, is like the descent of any human being.
For example, these students are descending now. When they went down from the classroom to the mosque and to the road, the classroom became empty of them. So we should not imagine that Allah (Mighty and Majestic), when He descends to the lowest heaven, descends like these people, because that is likening Allah to creation, and all likening is invalid, first of all.
And secondly: a human being descends due to his weakness and inability to accomplish all his deeds and desires while remaining in his place or on his Throne. So, due to his weakness, he descends from his Throne to enter the place of relief to relieve himself, the bathroom. All of this is evidence of his weakness and inability. As for our Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He, who possesses all attributes of perfection and is free from all attributes of deficiency, it is not permissible for us to imagine that His descent from above all creation to the lowest heaven means that He is now among His creations, and that some of His creations are above Him, far be it from Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). Therefore, His descent is not like the descent of humans. We have examples from what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has created in this world that can approximately illustrate this divine attribute.
Otherwise, there is nothing like Him. The sun, as you know, I do not know how the astronomers among us say, is a certain distance from us in light-years. Nevertheless, it extends its light, and its light penetrates all these vast distances until it reaches the earth, which we have interests in the rays it provides us with. And yet, the sun remains in the highness of its sky, and it has descended with its rays to these distances and to the earth. This is an approximate example, as is the moon. But our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) has nothing like Him. This objection is, in reality, like a person who does not believe in Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and His greatness and His encompassing the universe with His knowledge, who says: How can our Lord, in a single moment, understand these languages from these diverse languages, from hundreds, if not thousands, of humans? And how does He understand the animals? And fulfill the desires of this entire group? This is not said except regarding the weak created being. As for the Lord of the worlds, whose attribute is that He is Able over all things, this thought never occurs to the heart of a Muslim.
Likewise, let our position always be, forever, regarding all attributes of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), that they do not resemble any attribute of the attributes of the servants of Allah in any way. And true is Allah when He says: .