And for its sake, they denied its descent *** toward the sky in the second half of the night (The denial by the Jahmiyyah of Allah’s descent to the lowest heaven in the last part of the night)

The Shaykh :“And for its sake, they denied its descent *** toward the sky in the second half of the night”
“And for its sake” means for the sake of figurative interpretation, they denied the descent of Allah the Exalted to the lowest heaven in the second half of the night. They said that the meaning of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): is that the command of our Lord, or the mercy of our Lord, or the angel of our Lord descends. The answer to this figurative interpretation has already been given: it is, in reality, distortion of a text's meaning.