Statement of the summary of this entire chapter, which is establishing the elevation of Allah
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The Shaykh : The summary of this entire chapter is that Ibn al-Qayyim wants to compel those who deny the elevation to what? To a statement regarding the elevation. Because he says to them: Before you are three possibilities: either He is inside the creation, or outside the creation, or He is the creation itself. There is no escape from these three. They cannot say He is the creation itself, because they declare disbelievers those who say that. We say: Then what is compelled upon you? That He is either inside or outside. They say: Neither inside nor outside. We say: This is not possible. It is not possible for you to negate both being inside and being outside. They say: That is possible. Why? Because Allah is not susceptible to these two descriptions. And whatever is not susceptible to them, their negation of it is correct, just as you say: The wall does not oppress and does not act justly. You negate both opposites of it. Why? Because it is not susceptible to them. How do we respond to them? We respond to them in three ways, as Ibn al-Qayyim said. The first way is that your statement that negation and affirmation only apply to what is susceptible to them...
