The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: "Therefore We Said You Are the Gate for the One Who Says of Union, Nay, Two Gates"
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The Shaykh :"Therefore We Said You Are the Gate for the One Who Says of Union, Nay, Two Gates"
He is addressing those who deny the Exaltation of Allah, because the necessary consequence of their denial is that they ultimately say that the Creator and the creation are united. When that happens, they open the door for the people of pantheism. Ibn al-Qayyim says:
"Nay, Two Gates"
"You Punctuated for Them, and They Wrote Upon Your Punctuation, Like a Teacher of Children"
When a teacher wants a student to draw a straight line, the student does what he is told: he makes one dot, then two, three, four, all the way to the end of the paper, and then he draws the line. At that point, his line will be straight. But if he draws the line without making the dots, it will be crooked, because he is a student. In any case, listen to what Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says: If you do not affirm the distinction between the Creator and the creation and His Exaltation above them, you will inevitably fall into pantheism and say that He and the creation are one thing. When that happens, you will have opened the doors for the people of the unity of existence. It is true that those who deny the divine attributes open the doors for the people of the unity of existence. This is what we mentioned earlier in our discussion, where they said that the speech of Allah is created. If they say it is created, then it follows that we must say that all created speech is the speech of Allah.
The student: ... a quarter of an hour ...
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah, we are reading, please repeat that now.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: ... we will record it and then ...
The Shaykh : Very well.
The student: We will erase it and record over it, because if
He is addressing those who deny the Exaltation of Allah, because the necessary consequence of their denial is that they ultimately say that the Creator and the creation are united. When that happens, they open the door for the people of pantheism. Ibn al-Qayyim says:
"Nay, Two Gates"
"You Punctuated for Them, and They Wrote Upon Your Punctuation, Like a Teacher of Children"
When a teacher wants a student to draw a straight line, the student does what he is told: he makes one dot, then two, three, four, all the way to the end of the paper, and then he draws the line. At that point, his line will be straight. But if he draws the line without making the dots, it will be crooked, because he is a student. In any case, listen to what Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says: If you do not affirm the distinction between the Creator and the creation and His Exaltation above them, you will inevitably fall into pantheism and say that He and the creation are one thing. When that happens, you will have opened the doors for the people of the unity of existence. It is true that those who deny the divine attributes open the doors for the people of the unity of existence. This is what we mentioned earlier in our discussion, where they said that the speech of Allah is created. If they say it is created, then it follows that we must say that all created speech is the speech of Allah.
The student: ... a quarter of an hour ...
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah, we are reading, please repeat that now.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: ... we will record it and then ...
The Shaykh : Very well.
The student: We will erase it and record over it, because if