Principle: Being with someone does not necessarily imply accompanying them in the same location, with examples cited to illustrate this.
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The Shaykh : So, being with someone does not necessarily imply accompanying them in the same location. The Shaykh al-Islam said in *al-'Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah*: "Rather, the moon is a sign among the signs of Allah, one of His smallest creations, and it is with the traveler and others wherever they are. So if the moon is among the smallest of Allah's creations, it is correct for us to say it is with us even though it is in the sky. The Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is with us, and He is in the sky, and He is aware of us in our secrets and our open actions."
This is why the supplication for travel includes: Therefore, it is not required that our companion in our travels be absent from our families; rather, he is our companion in our travels and our successor in our families, for Allah the Exalted said: [Ash-Shuraa 42:11]. It becomes clear from this that their argument for their misguided position, namely that Allah is in every place, based on the statement of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Hadid 57:4] is a false argument.
For example, it is said: So-and-so is with her husband So-and-so, and her husband is in Makkah while she is in al-Madinah. Is this statement correct or not?
The student: It is correct.
The Shaykh : It is correct, even though she is not with him in the same location, but she is with him in the general sense of companionship.
And it is said, for example, the commander is with his troops, while he is in the command room and the troops are on the battlefield, and this is an eloquent linguistic expression. But as we said last night, and as we say tonight as well, some people, may Allah protect us from them, are confused about the truth, so they take the ambiguous parts of the texts to confuse people with them, and they believe in the falsehood they have adopted. The result is that the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Az-Zukhruf 43:84], and His saying: [Al-An'am 6:3], and the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Hadid 57:4], never indicates, neither in a distant nor a near sense, what this misguided Jahmiyyah incarnationist sect has adopted, who say that Allah is in every place by His essence.
This is why the supplication for travel includes:
O Allah, You are the companion in travel - and what? - and the successor in the family.
اللهم أنت الصاحب في السفر - وايش؟ - والخليفة في الأهلThere is nothing like unto Him
ليس كمثله شيءand He is with you wherever you are
وهو معكم أين ما كنتمFor example, it is said: So-and-so is with her husband So-and-so, and her husband is in Makkah while she is in al-Madinah. Is this statement correct or not?
The student: It is correct.
The Shaykh : It is correct, even though she is not with him in the same location, but she is with him in the general sense of companionship.
And it is said, for example, the commander is with his troops, while he is in the command room and the troops are on the battlefield, and this is an eloquent linguistic expression. But as we said last night, and as we say tonight as well, some people, may Allah protect us from them, are confused about the truth, so they take the ambiguous parts of the texts to confuse people with them, and they believe in the falsehood they have adopted. The result is that the saying of Allah the Exalted: