And likewise, the fitrah (the innate natural disposition) of our Lord, the Most Merciful, is a witness for us, as well as the witnesses of clear proof (an example of the fitrah’s testimony regarding the Lord of the worlds, testifying for the people of the Sunnah, namely the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic)
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The Shaykh :"And likewise, the fitrah (the innate natural disposition) of our Lord, the Most Merciful, is a witness for us, as well as the witnesses of clear proof"
The fitrah testifies to what we say, and it does not testify to what you say. A clearer example of this is the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. They deny it; they deny the exaltation of Allah. The early Jahmiyyah (a sect that denied the divine attributes) said that Allah is in every place, in every location. So Allah is in the mosque, Allah is in the market, Allah is in the restaurant, yes, even if they are drinking shisha and smoking and everything else, Allah is in the place, in something dirtier than that, may Allah protect us. So Allah is in it. The later ones among them said, "This is not reasonable; this is an abomination." But the truth is that Allah is not above the world, nor below it, nor to the right, nor to the left, nor connected, nor separated, yes, nor inside the world, nor outside the world, yes, yes, yes. And what about the negation? So it is pure non-existence, as Mahmud ibn Subuktigin (may Allah have mercy on him) said when he said: "Describe your Lord to us." He said to him: "He is not inside the world, nor outside it, and he stood up and came from this negation" He said: "By Allah, you do not describe non-existence with a better description than this" This is non-existence. All right.
But we say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is above, above, above everything. The sound fitrah now, if a person did not read any book on exaltation, where would he seek his Lord in exaltation? By the fitrah, he seeks Him in exaltation. If he says, "O Lord," it is not possible except... to the sky. And if they are argued with and it is said to them, "You are calling upon Allah, you raise your hands," he says, "Why do we raise our hands? Because the sky is the direction of the caller's qiblah, not because Allah is in the sky, I seek refuge in Allah. All right, the qiblah of the caller and the called is below, how is this? But we ask Allah for safety. Ignorance, ignorance."
He said: "And likewise, the fitrah (the innate natural disposition) of our Lord, the Most Merciful, is a witness for us, as well as the witnesses of clear proof"
How many? The Book, the Sunnah, the intellect, and the fitrah (the innate natural disposition).
The fitrah testifies to what we say, and it does not testify to what you say. A clearer example of this is the exaltation of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. They deny it; they deny the exaltation of Allah. The early Jahmiyyah (a sect that denied the divine attributes) said that Allah is in every place, in every location. So Allah is in the mosque, Allah is in the market, Allah is in the restaurant, yes, even if they are drinking shisha and smoking and everything else, Allah is in the place, in something dirtier than that, may Allah protect us. So Allah is in it. The later ones among them said, "This is not reasonable; this is an abomination." But the truth is that Allah is not above the world, nor below it, nor to the right, nor to the left, nor connected, nor separated, yes, nor inside the world, nor outside the world, yes, yes, yes. And what about the negation? So it is pure non-existence, as Mahmud ibn Subuktigin (may Allah have mercy on him) said when he said: "Describe your Lord to us." He said to him: "He is not inside the world, nor outside it, and he stood up and came from this negation" He said: "By Allah, you do not describe non-existence with a better description than this" This is non-existence. All right.
But we say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is above, above, above everything. The sound fitrah now, if a person did not read any book on exaltation, where would he seek his Lord in exaltation? By the fitrah, he seeks Him in exaltation. If he says, "O Lord," it is not possible except... to the sky. And if they are argued with and it is said to them, "You are calling upon Allah, you raise your hands," he says, "Why do we raise our hands? Because the sky is the direction of the caller's qiblah, not because Allah is in the sky, I seek refuge in Allah. All right, the qiblah of the caller and the called is below, how is this? But we ask Allah for safety. Ignorance, ignorance."
He said: "And likewise, the fitrah (the innate natural disposition) of our Lord, the Most Merciful, is a witness for us, as well as the witnesses of clear proof"
How many? The Book, the Sunnah, the intellect, and the fitrah (the innate natural disposition).