The Meaning of the Poet's Statement: "The Reality of Ascribing a Body to Allah, If It Exists with You, Is Describing the God, the Creator, the Judge, with His Exalted Attributes, Which His Verses and His Just Messengers Have Testified To"
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The Shaykh :"The Reality of Ascribing a Body to Allah, If It Exists with You, Is Describing the God, the Creator, the Judge, with His Exalted Attributes, Which His Verses and His Just Messengers Have Testified To"
The student: If it exists.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: If it exists?
The Shaykh : If it exists? Yes.
"The Reality of Ascribing a Body to Allah, If It Exists with You, Is"
No, okay, wait.
The reality of ascribing a body to Allah, if there is a reality to it, is
"Describing the God, the Creator, the Judge" with what?
"With His Exalted Attributes, Which His Verses and His Just Messengers Have Testified To"
So, ascribing a body to Allah, according to these people, is affirming or describing Allah with what came in the Book and the Sunnah. This is what they call ascribing a body to Allah. But they confuse the issue and say, "They are anthropomorphists, they ascribed a body to Allah, and they made Him a body," in order to turn people away from it.
The student: If it exists.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: If it exists?
The Shaykh : If it exists? Yes.
"The Reality of Ascribing a Body to Allah, If It Exists with You, Is"
No, okay, wait.
The reality of ascribing a body to Allah, if there is a reality to it, is
"Describing the God, the Creator, the Judge" with what?
"With His Exalted Attributes, Which His Verses and His Just Messengers Have Testified To"
So, ascribing a body to Allah, according to these people, is affirming or describing Allah with what came in the Book and the Sunnah. This is what they call ascribing a body to Allah. But they confuse the issue and say, "They are anthropomorphists, they ascribed a body to Allah, and they made Him a body," in order to turn people away from it.