The Meaning of the Poet's Words: "Return to the anthropomorphists and say our religion is *** the affirmation of a religion that likens the Creator to creation, or else we are neither of us nor of them, and this *** is the affair of the hypocrite, for he has two faces"
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The Shaykh :"Return to the anthropomorphists and say our religion is *** the affirmation of a religion that likens the Creator to creation"
How can they say, "You have returned as anthropomorphists, and you say our religion is affirmation"? So whoever affirms the attributes is, in their view, an anthropomorphist who likens Allah to creation. That is why he said: "A religion of likening the Creator to creation."
"Or else"
He means: or do not align yourselves with the people of anthropomorphism or the doctrine of anthropomorphism.
"Or else we are neither of us nor of them" wavering between them, belonging neither to these nor to those. "And this *** is the affair of the hypocrite, for he has two faces"
The hypocrite has two faces. He meets the believers with one face and says, "We are with you; we have believed in Allah." He meets the disbelievers with another face and says, "We are with you; we are only mocking." So he has two faces. May Allah protect us and you from that.
How can they say, "You have returned as anthropomorphists, and you say our religion is affirmation"? So whoever affirms the attributes is, in their view, an anthropomorphist who likens Allah to creation. That is why he said: "A religion of likening the Creator to creation."
"Or else"
He means: or do not align yourselves with the people of anthropomorphism or the doctrine of anthropomorphism.
"Or else we are neither of us nor of them" wavering between them, belonging neither to these nor to those. "And this *** is the affair of the hypocrite, for he has two faces"
The hypocrite has two faces. He meets the believers with one face and says, "We are with you; we have believed in Allah." He meets the disbelievers with another face and says, "We are with you; we are only mocking." So he has two faces. May Allah protect us and you from that.