Do not slander the people of hadith with it, for this is not their saying; woe to the slanderer (Mentioning the meanings therein)
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The Shaykh :"Do not slander the people of hadith with it, for this is not their saying; woe to the slanderer"
Now, do the people of hadith say that Allah is in the sky, meaning in the interior of the sky? No, never. They say that Allah is in the sky, meaning in the height, or that Allah is in the sky, meaning above the sky. None of them has said that Allah is in the sky in the sense that it surrounds Him as a room surrounds the one inside it. If you say that so-and-so is in the room, we understand that he filled it, that he is inside it, and that it surrounds him. But this is not what I mean when I say that Allah is in the sky; there is a great difference between the two, do you understand? The word "in" differs in meaning depending on what it is attached to. For example, you say: the water is in the cup, or the water is in the glass—perhaps you do not know what a cup is—the water is in the glass, the man is in the room. It is clear that the water filled the glass, and the man filled the room. The face in the mirror is different from this, is it not? The writing on the paper is different, and the soul in the body is different. Thus, the meanings of the preposition "in" differ not by the preposition itself, but by the object to which it is attached, that is, what it is attached to.
Now, do the people of hadith say that Allah is in the sky, meaning in the interior of the sky? No, never. They say that Allah is in the sky, meaning in the height, or that Allah is in the sky, meaning above the sky. None of them has said that Allah is in the sky in the sense that it surrounds Him as a room surrounds the one inside it. If you say that so-and-so is in the room, we understand that he filled it, that he is inside it, and that it surrounds him. But this is not what I mean when I say that Allah is in the sky; there is a great difference between the two, do you understand? The word "in" differs in meaning depending on what it is attached to. For example, you say: the water is in the cup, or the water is in the glass—perhaps you do not know what a cup is—the water is in the glass, the man is in the room. It is clear that the water filled the glass, and the man filled the room. The face in the mirror is different from this, is it not? The writing on the paper is different, and the soul in the body is different. Thus, the meanings of the preposition "in" differ not by the preposition itself, but by the object to which it is attached, that is, what it is attached to.