(Clarification that the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) are those who opened the door for the philosophers and the atheists in denying the attributes and refuting them) And you broke the door behind which***
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The Shaykh :"And you broke the door behind which*** are the enemies of the messengers of Allah and of faith
So an enemy came—what?—so an enemy came to you with two hands for fighting them*** and waging war against them for all eternity"
Yes, they opened the door for the people of pure ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), for the people of pure ta'til (denial of the divine attributes). For example, the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) denied the existence of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and the existence of His attributes, and I mean by that the philosophers who are the people of imagination. They said that Allah does not exist, and there are no attributes, and there is no Paradise and no Hellfire; everything the messengers mentioned of that is imagination with no reality. They intended by that to reform the people, because if people are told that you have a great Lord who takes revenge on the criminal and rewards the obedient, and that you have a great reward if you obey, which is Paradise that does not perish or vanish, and that you have a painful punishment if you disobey, which is the Fire, then people will respond. Therefore, in their claim, the messengers were geniuses who laid out plans and a methodology and wanted people to follow this methodology. They said that there is a Lord and a reward and a Day of Resurrection, and so on... Do you understand?
So those who followed this path said to the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes): You distorted the texts of the attributes and said that Allah has no Face, no Hand, no Eye, no Foot, and He has no istiwaa' (rising above the Throne) or descent to the lowest heaven or coming... and so on. Do you understand? So you interpreted these, and we interpreted these. What is the difference? What is the difference between us?
So they said to them, the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) who acknowledge the Day of Resurrection: We know that the messengers came with the affirmation of the Day of Resurrection. Look at the evidence or the decisive answer. We know that the messengers came with the affirmation of the Day of Resurrection, correct? And that the objection preventing it is defective. The objection preventing it is defective. What prevents the resurrection? A defective objection that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has refuted. If the messengers came with it and the objection preventing it is defective, then it is necessary to affirm it. Correct? And is this answer correct or not? It is a correct answer. Therefore, the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) are correct in this matter. So the people of the Sunnah said: Your answer to the philosophers, the people of imagination, is a correct answer, but we hold you to it to say that the attributes exist, because we know that the messengers came with the affirmation of the attributes for Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And this is a necessary consequence of their statement: that the messengers came with the affirmation of the resurrection. And we know the defect of the objection preventing it. What is the objection preventing the affirmation of the attributes, in the claim of the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes)? Tashbih (likening Allah to creation) and tajsim (ascribing a body to Allah) and the like. And this objection is defective, so it is necessary to affirm its opposite. So the evidence of the people of the Sunnah against the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) in affirming the attributes is like the evidence of the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) against the philosophers and the people of imagination in affirming the resurrection. Is that clear? Yes. When they denied the attributes, and the mention of the attributes in the Qur'an is more frequent and their establishment is more affirmed. When the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) denied them, the philosophers and the people of imagination said: You, O people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), have permitted yourselves to interpret the verses of the attributes and deny their meaning. Why do you deny us interpreting the verses or interpreting the texts of the resurrection and interpreting them? We and you are on equal footing. So look how the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) opened the door for the people of philosophy, for the people of philosophy and pure ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) who do not believe in a Lord or a reward.
Is that clear, everyone? So who opened the door? The people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), because I mean the people of imagination compelled them to say that the resurrection is denied, just as they said that the attributes are denied. Therefore, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"And you broke the door behind which*** are the enemies of the messengers of Allah and of faith
So an enemy came to you with two hands for fighting them*** and waging war against them for all eternity"
So an enemy came—what?—so an enemy came to you with two hands for fighting them*** and waging war against them for all eternity"
Yes, they opened the door for the people of pure ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), for the people of pure ta'til (denial of the divine attributes). For example, the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) denied the existence of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and the existence of His attributes, and I mean by that the philosophers who are the people of imagination. They said that Allah does not exist, and there are no attributes, and there is no Paradise and no Hellfire; everything the messengers mentioned of that is imagination with no reality. They intended by that to reform the people, because if people are told that you have a great Lord who takes revenge on the criminal and rewards the obedient, and that you have a great reward if you obey, which is Paradise that does not perish or vanish, and that you have a painful punishment if you disobey, which is the Fire, then people will respond. Therefore, in their claim, the messengers were geniuses who laid out plans and a methodology and wanted people to follow this methodology. They said that there is a Lord and a reward and a Day of Resurrection, and so on... Do you understand?
So those who followed this path said to the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes): You distorted the texts of the attributes and said that Allah has no Face, no Hand, no Eye, no Foot, and He has no istiwaa' (rising above the Throne) or descent to the lowest heaven or coming... and so on. Do you understand? So you interpreted these, and we interpreted these. What is the difference? What is the difference between us?
So they said to them, the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) who acknowledge the Day of Resurrection: We know that the messengers came with the affirmation of the Day of Resurrection. Look at the evidence or the decisive answer. We know that the messengers came with the affirmation of the Day of Resurrection, correct? And that the objection preventing it is defective. The objection preventing it is defective. What prevents the resurrection?
Who will give life to the bones when they are crumbled?
من يحيي العظام وهو رميمIs that clear, everyone? So who opened the door? The people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), because I mean the people of imagination compelled them to say that the resurrection is denied, just as they said that the attributes are denied. Therefore, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"And you broke the door behind which*** are the enemies of the messengers of Allah and of faith
So an enemy came to you with two hands for fighting them*** and waging war against them for all eternity"