The Meaning of the Poet's Statement: "And the speech is regarding the attributes of negation" and you have come to know the Most Merciful through bodies and the *** attributes, movements, and colors, and they are... so they did not know Him through them, but rather through *** the verses, and it is other than that which has no proof
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The Shaykh : He said:
"And you have come to know the Most Merciful through bodies *** and attributes, movements, and colors"
They say that Allah is not a body, not seen, not moving, has no color, has no smell, has no touch, and so on and so forth. In their view, these are the complete attributes by which Allah is praised. They do not say[Al-Ikhlas 112:2-4] they recite it, but they distort it. The best thing in their view regarding descriptions is these negations. They measure out for you a measure, but it is a measure without limit of these negations. What do negations mean? Denial. It is not such, it is not such, it is not such. And we have explained to you previously that detailing the negations is a defect and a mockery. If you were to come to a king, one of the kings, and say: "By Allah, you are a man, you are not a woman, you are not hunchbacked, you are not a sweeper, you are not a cupper, you are not a veterinarian, you are not one who splits the bellies of sheep when they give birth, and so on from these attributes," what would he say to you?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What does he say? He says, "Bring the sword, you boy." But if you say, "You are a king whom no king of the world can equal," look, a negation, one word: "No king of the world can equal you," what does he say?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, he fills your pocket and all your pockets with coins and praises you.
So the result is that this group did not know Allah except through these negations. Yes.
"And you have come to know the Most Merciful through bodies *** and attributes, movements, and colors"
They say that Allah is not a body, not seen, not moving, has no color, has no smell, has no touch, and so on and so forth. In their view, these are the complete attributes by which Allah is praised. They do not say
(2) Allah, the Eternal Refuge. (3) He neither begets nor is born, (4) Nor is there to Him any equivalent."
الله أحد الله صمد لم يلد ولم يولد ولم يكن له كفوا أحدThe student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : What does he say? He says, "Bring the sword, you boy." But if you say, "You are a king whom no king of the world can equal," look, a negation, one word: "No king of the world can equal you," what does he say?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, he fills your pocket and all your pockets with coins and praises you.
So the result is that this group did not know Allah except through these negations. Yes.