(Their denial of the Exaltedness of Allah and clarification of whether it is permissible to apply the word "limit" to Allah) And likewise we said, there is nothing above the Throne *** except the impossible, and it is not possible for a body to be upon a body
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The Shaykh :"And likewise we said, there is nothing above the Throne *** except the impossible, and it is not possible"
Also, there is no deity above the Throne, because He is the Absolute Existence with the condition of absoluteness, as mentioned previously, and
"a body upon a body, both bodies are *** limited, so both of them would be peers"
This means that if we said that ... a deity would be a body upon a body, and both would be limited, so they would be peers or two peers, meaning they would be similar. The word "limit" regarding the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is a term that has not come, neither in negation nor affirmation, in the Qur'an or the Sunnah. Therefore, the statement regarding it is to ask what is meant by "limit." If someone asked us, "Is Allah limited?" we would say, "What do you mean by 'limit'?" If you mean that He is distinct and separate from His creation, then in this meaning, is He? Limited, distinct and separate from His creation. And if you mean by the word "limited" that He has a limit that ends Him and that something of His creation surrounds Him, then this is impossible. Therefore, in the speech of the Salaf, there is both the negation of the limit and the affirmation of the limit. This difference is based on the detail we mentioned: whoever negated the limit meant the limit that confines the Creator, Mighty and Majestic, and whoever affirmed it meant the limit that distinguishes Him from His creation and makes Him separate from them.
Also, there is no deity above the Throne, because He is the Absolute Existence with the condition of absoluteness, as mentioned previously, and
"a body upon a body, both bodies are *** limited, so both of them would be peers"
This means that if we said that ... a deity would be a body upon a body, and both would be limited, so they would be peers or two peers, meaning they would be similar. The word "limit" regarding the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is a term that has not come, neither in negation nor affirmation, in the Qur'an or the Sunnah. Therefore, the statement regarding it is to ask what is meant by "limit." If someone asked us, "Is Allah limited?" we would say, "What do you mean by 'limit'?" If you mean that He is distinct and separate from His creation, then in this meaning, is He? Limited, distinct and separate from His creation. And if you mean by the word "limited" that He has a limit that ends Him and that something of His creation surrounds Him, then this is impossible. Therefore, in the speech of the Salaf, there is both the negation of the limit and the affirmation of the limit. This difference is based on the detail we mentioned: whoever negated the limit meant the limit that confines the Creator, Mighty and Majestic, and whoever affirmed it meant the limit that distinguishes Him from His creation and makes Him separate from them.