Explaining the Exaltedness of Allah the Exalted above His creation and refuting those who oppose this

The Shaykh : Take, for example, the belief in the oneness of Allah (tawhid) or the belief in the Exaltedness of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) above His creation. From experience, I know that many of our brothers, the Salafi monotheists, believe with us that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is above the Throne, without figurative interpretation (ta'wil) and without asking how an attribute is (takyif). But when a modern Mu'tazili, a modern Jahmi, a Maturidi, or a modern Ash'ari comes to them and raises a doubt based on the apparent meaning of a verse whose meaning they did not understand—neither the one who doubts nor the one to whom the doubt is raised—they become confused in their belief and stray far from it. Why? Because they did not receive the creed from all the aspects in which our Lord's Book and our Prophet's Hadith explain it. When the contemporary Mu'tazili says, "Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: And you say that Allah is in the sky, which means you have placed your object of worship in a container, which is the created sky." I do not want to go into this issue at length, because the intention is only to remind you; otherwise, researching this specific detail requires a special session. I want the example to show that the creed of tawhid, with all its implications and requirements, is not clear in the minds of those who believe in the Salafi creed. I do not mean the others who followed the Jahmiyyah, the Mu'tazilah, the Maturidiyyah, or the Asha'irah in such a matter. I am pointing with this example to the fact that the matter is not as easy as some of our brother preachers today portray it, those who meet with us in calling to the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the pious predecessors (Salaf). The matter is not as easy as some of them claim. The reason for this is what I have previously explained regarding the difference between the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) of the first polytheists, when they were called to say "La ilaha illa Allah" (There is no deity but Allah) and they refused, because they understood the meaning of this good word, and the contemporary Muslims today, when they say this word but they refuse its correct meaning. This essential difference is now realized in such a creed, the creed of the Exaltedness of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) above all His creations. This requires explanation, and it is not enough for the Muslim to only believe in the meaning of and the meaning of without knowing that "in" here ; in this context, "in" is like in the saying of the Exalted: meaning from above the sky. So when that Mu'tazili or Ash'ari comes and whispers to him, saying, "You are placing your Lord in a container in the sky," the answer for him is: No, there is no contradiction between the saying of the Exalted: and His saying: , because "in" here means "above" there. The evidence is much and very much, among which is this hadith circulated on the tongues of people; in its aggregate chains, praise be to Allah, it is an authentic hadith: It does not mean the insects and worms that are in the earth, but rather those above the earth, from humans and animals. meaning from above the sky. So such details must be known by those who respond to the call of truth with clarity of the matter. This is clarified by remembering the hadith of the girl who was a shepherdess, as you know, when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked her, and you are, if Allah wills, remembering the hadith, and we only mention the relevant part of it: If you were to ask the senior sheikhs of Al-Azhar today, "Where is Allah?" they would tell you, "Everywhere." Meanwhile, a girl who gives the correct answer, and she is a girl who is a shepherdess. What is the reason? Because she was living in an atmosphere, in our modern expression, a Salafi atmosphere, or a Sunni atmosphere in general expression, because she graduated, as they also say today, from the school of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). This school was not exclusive to some men or some women, but it was transferred from people to people, encompassing all the inhabitants, men and women. And so the girl, while she was a shepherdess, knew the correct creed that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) brought in the Book and in the Sunnah. Today, there is nothing of this explanation and this clarity, such that if you asked—I do not say a shepherdess, but if you asked a shepherd of a nation and a group—he might be confused in the answer, as many are confused today.