Does this follow from affirming His attributes? *** And His rising above, glory be to the One who is glorified (The fourth part of purifying Allah from composition)
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The Shaykh :"Does this follow from affirming His attributes? *** And His rising above, glory be to the One who is glorified"
Does this composition, which is the composition of individual limbs, necessarily follow from affirming His attributes? Must we say that He is composed of individual atoms? Never. Because the genus of the Creator differs from the genus of the created, and it is impossible for the Creator to resemble the created in any way. We, the children of Adam, are created from dust, the angels from light, and the jinn from fire. The human is from dust, the angels from light, and the devils and jinn from fire. Yet all of them are bodies that can be seen, and they differ in their origin and substance. So how can you impose on us the claim that whoever affirms an attribute for Allah must make Allah a composite of individual atoms, or of matter and form, or something similar?
Does this composition, which is the composition of individual limbs, necessarily follow from affirming His attributes? Must we say that He is composed of individual atoms? Never. Because the genus of the Creator differs from the genus of the created, and it is impossible for the Creator to resemble the created in any way. We, the children of Adam, are created from dust, the angels from light, and the jinn from fire. The human is from dust, the angels from light, and the devils and jinn from fire. Yet all of them are bodies that can be seen, and they differ in their origin and substance. So how can you impose on us the claim that whoever affirms an attribute for Allah must make Allah a composite of individual atoms, or of matter and form, or something similar?