Is it correct to say that every one who denies the divine attributes is one who likens Allah to creation?
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The questioner : It seems, my teacher, that in the book of Tawhid now, I forgot what is quoted from a person who says: Every one who denies the divine attributes is, in the first place, one who likens Allah to creation.
The Shaykh : We did not say that to you! We said just now: The root of denying the divine attributes is falling into likening Allah to creation, but...
The questioner : ...so that they might escape from this likening of Allah to creation.
The Shaykh : Yes, they fell into denying the divine attributes.
The questioner : He falls into figurative interpretation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : In many cases, my teacher, we studied this, by Allah, in the Islamic institutes.
The Shaykh : All the colleges of Shari'ah now in the Islamic world... Yes, that is right.
The questioner : The One in whose hand is dominion, meaning by His power.
The Shaykh : Therefore, now the phrase has become common among the specialists and the general public, they say it, they say in our region of Sham, "on a different basis," meaning...
The questioner : It is said without...
The Shaykh : Without... at all, "Kashiyah"; meaning like the circle of the sun is rising and the lamp is lit, and so on. One is sitting comfortably like this: "Allah is present in all of existence."
The questioner : Like that?
The Shaykh : Allah is everywhere, Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : We did not say that to you! We said just now: The root of denying the divine attributes is falling into likening Allah to creation, but...
The questioner : ...so that they might escape from this likening of Allah to creation.
The Shaykh : Yes, they fell into denying the divine attributes.
The questioner : He falls into figurative interpretation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : In many cases, my teacher, we studied this, by Allah, in the Islamic institutes.
The Shaykh : All the colleges of Shari'ah now in the Islamic world... Yes, that is right.
The questioner : The One in whose hand is dominion, meaning by His power.
The Shaykh : Therefore, now the phrase has become common among the specialists and the general public, they say it, they say in our region of Sham, "on a different basis," meaning...
The questioner : It is said without...
The Shaykh : Without... at all, "Kashiyah"; meaning like the circle of the sun is rising and the lamp is lit, and so on. One is sitting comfortably like this: "Allah is present in all of existence."
The questioner : Like that?
The Shaykh : Allah is everywhere, Allah is the Greatest!
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