Reporting on Allah the Exalted with a certain attribute: is a name derived from it?
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The Shaykh : We say, for example, simply and without denial or rejection: Is "Existing" (Mawjud) among the names of Allah, Mighty and Majestic? Of course not. When the scholars deny it, they mean that it is not permissible to name or describe Allah, Mighty and Majestic, except with what He has named and described Himself with. They do not mean the declarative sentence that a person utters and then does not stop at, describing Allah, Mighty and Majestic, by saying that one of His names is "Existing" or that one of His names is "Legislator." Rather, he is reporting a pure report. This is what Ibn Taymiyyah clarifies, stating that the point is that the word "Legislator" is used because it is a report about a meaning that exists in the mind, which a person expresses. If someone says of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, "He is not lost" or "He is not isolated," he has not applied a name to Allah or an attribute of His attributes. But with this word, "He is not isolated," he indicates the meaning of "The Everlasting" (al-Baqi) or His name "The Everlasting" (al-Baqi), and "The Living" (al-Hayy), and "The Self-Subsisting" (al-Qayyum), and the like. For this reason, such usage is not denied if it is not used as a name that came from the Salaf or as an attribute that came in the Shari'ah as an explicit text.
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