And adherence to that is clearly established for anyone *** who has two ears that can hear, and by Allah, were it not for the tightness of this meter, I *** would have explained the necessity with the clearest explanation
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The Shaykh :"And adherence to that is clearly established for anyone *** who has two ears that can hear,
and by Allah, were it not for the tightness of this meter, I *** would have explained the necessity with the clearest explanation"
But he (may Allah have mercy on him) referred us to the fact that we should look into it ourselves and examine these necessary implications.
So if someone were to say, for example, that Allah the Exalted is not described as existing or non-existent, nor as hearing or seeing, nor as deaf or blind, nor as being above the creation or below it, what do we say? This is pure non-existence, indeed impossibility, because it is not possible for a thing to exist that is not described as either existing or non-existent. Everything is either existent or non-existent. Let us set aside life and death; perhaps someone might say that life and death are only attributed to animals, unlike other things like inanimate objects, stones, and trees, for a stone is not described as having life or death. We say that existence and non-existence are inescapable; it is not possible to describe a thing as neither existent nor non-existent. If you negate its existence, it necessarily follows that it is non-existent, and if you negate its non-existence, it necessarily follows that it is existent. Now, this has been mentioned previously.
and by Allah, were it not for the tightness of this meter, I *** would have explained the necessity with the clearest explanation"
But he (may Allah have mercy on him) referred us to the fact that we should look into it ourselves and examine these necessary implications.
So if someone were to say, for example, that Allah the Exalted is not described as existing or non-existent, nor as hearing or seeing, nor as deaf or blind, nor as being above the creation or below it, what do we say? This is pure non-existence, indeed impossibility, because it is not possible for a thing to exist that is not described as either existing or non-existent. Everything is either existent or non-existent. Let us set aside life and death; perhaps someone might say that life and death are only attributed to animals, unlike other things like inanimate objects, stones, and trees, for a stone is not described as having life or death. We say that existence and non-existence are inescapable; it is not possible to describe a thing as neither existent nor non-existent. If you negate its existence, it necessarily follows that it is non-existent, and if you negate its non-existence, it necessarily follows that it is existent. Now, this has been mentioned previously.