The Response to al-Suqaf regarding some transgressions against the texts of the attributes?

The questioner : A new religious innovation, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Allah is the Helper.

The questioner : al-Suqaf introduced it in these days regarding this issue. I spoke with one of his students or visitors, and when I discussed this issue with him, he said, "Our Shaykh tells us that when the Companions said, 'Indeed, the Most Merciful has risen above the Throne,' they intended figurative interpretation (ta'wil)." When I questioned this man, every time he brought up something, I brought up something for him. In the end, he said, "I affirm that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is above the heavens, just as the maidservant affirmed it." That is, he is insistent on the words of his Shaykh that the maidservant affirmed it, but they want to interpret it figuratively?

The Shaykh : And how does he know that?

The questioner : I told him, "What is the proof and what is the evidence? He must have evidence and proof."

The Shaykh : In any case, I believe this is a word they say with their tongues, saying it to escape the argument established against them, because the man explicitly states in his books that the statement that Allah is in the sky is disbelief. Like this! He said in some of his books, quoting from some of the interpreters who engage in figurative interpretation (ta'wil), unfortunately, just as the people of shirk (associating partners with Allah) say!

The questioner: Allahu Akbar.

The Shaykh : The book is printed like this! So, if you reach the point where he says, "I say as the maidservant said, but with figurative interpretation (ta'wil)," this is, first of all, I believe, one of two things, in order to be fair to this man or the young man you are referring to: either he disbelieved in his Shaykh, or he interpreted his wordsThe Shaykh : with an interpretation he does not approve of,The Shaykh : or thatThe Shaykh : their teachers, when told to say so-and-so, say so-and-so to those whose statement contradicts what is written in their books, because the man explicitly states that it is not permissible for a Muslim to say that Allah is in the sky, because this is the statement of the disbelieving polytheists, usually the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). And he received this fromThe Shaykh : 'Abd Allah al-Ghumari al-Maghribi. He also explicitly states in some of his annotations on the book al-Tamhid, this great book which was afflicted by some annotators from the people of desires and the people of denial of the divine attributes (ta'til), and I do not say figurative interpretation (ta'wil). So, if this statement is said in truth, it is a step forward. But the truth is that al-Suqaf does not believe except that the word "Allah is in the sky" is disbelief, because he interprets "in" (fi) as "in the interior of" the sky, and this is disbelief. Therefore, he says that we say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is not in a place, and whoever believes that Allah is in a place has committed disbelief. Therefore, they interpret "in" (fi) to mean "upon" (ala), as is explicit in the other verses. Then he says that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is not in a place and not outside of place; Allah is not inside the world nor outside of it. And that is the stance of the people of denial (mu'til). And among the wonders of their statements is that they declare disbelievers those who say the word of Allah and His Messenger, and they believe those who say a word that neither the Messenger of Allah, nor a Companion, nor a Successor, nor an Imam of the Imams of the Muslims ever said. We say, therefore,The questioner : Who are the scholars whom they believe in their knowledge and righteousness who say, "Allah is not inside the world nor outside of it"? This is their creed. Where did they get this creed, "Allah is not inside the world nor outside of it"? No matter how they try to interpret such words, it is not acceptable to interpret the second part at all, except as a denial of the existence of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He. And we believe that many of the interpreters are not heretics, but in reality, they are saying the word of the heretics. The heretic who denies the existence of Allah is the one who will say, "There is nothing of what you claim, neither inside the world nor outside of it." But due to their influence by the science of theology (kalam), they reached the point of saying a word that is heresy itself. But with that, they do not know, and the saying of the Lord of the Worlds applies to them: . Others. Please.