The Meaning of the Poet's Statement: "The Truth Is That the Attribute Is Not the Object of Division; This Is the Requirement of Proof, but the Object of Division Is What Has Subsisted in the Essence of the One, the Merciful"
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The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) says: "The truth is that the attribute is not the object of division; this is the requirement of proof. Rather, the object of division is what has subsisted in the essence, meaning whether it has subsisted or not. The cause, or the division, is that the attributes are of two types: attributes that subsist in the essence of Allah and do not transcend it, and these are of two kinds: conceptual and active. Knowledge, power, hearing, and sight are conceptual, while descending, rising above the Throne, and coming are active. This is the object of division. He says:"
"So the attribute by actions necessitates the comparison of the action with the attributed one by proof"
It is correct if it is said, "So-and-so is an actor," and let us illustrate with... Zayd.
"So the attribute by actions necessitates the comparison of the action with the attributed one by proof"
It is correct if it is said, "So-and-so is an actor," and let us illustrate with... Zayd.
