Ask them what they mean by composition, for composition has six meanings (Explanation of the impossible composition that the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) used as a means to deny the attributes of Allah)
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The Shaykh :"So ask them what they mean *** by composition, for composition has six meanings"
This means, ask them what is the impossible composition that they made a means to deny the attributes of Allah, because in their claim it is false, and whatever necessitates the false is false. Regarding composition, he says it has six meanings.
"One of its meanings is composition from *** disparate things, like the composition of an animal"
This means the first type, or the first meaning of composition, is what is composed of disparate things, like the animal, which is composed of limbs that are disparate in their reality, in their form, and in their benefits. The flesh is not the bone, the bone is not the skin, the liver is not the stomach, and the stomach is not the intestines, and so on. It is one body, but composed of many things that no one knows except Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So in the body, there are great, strange, and wondrous compositions. Is this composition? Do you say that the body, in this composition, became bodies? Answer, everyone.
The student: No.
The Shaykh : No, it is one body, and it is composed of disparate things. Now, he says:
"From these limbs, such are his limbs *** composed of the four pillars"
The limbs are also composed of four pillars: a right hand and a left hand, a right foot and a left foot. Now,
This means, ask them what is the impossible composition that they made a means to deny the attributes of Allah, because in their claim it is false, and whatever necessitates the false is false. Regarding composition, he says it has six meanings.
"One of its meanings is composition from *** disparate things, like the composition of an animal"
This means the first type, or the first meaning of composition, is what is composed of disparate things, like the animal, which is composed of limbs that are disparate in their reality, in their form, and in their benefits. The flesh is not the bone, the bone is not the skin, the liver is not the stomach, and the stomach is not the intestines, and so on. It is one body, but composed of many things that no one knows except Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So in the body, there are great, strange, and wondrous compositions. Is this composition? Do you say that the body, in this composition, became bodies? Answer, everyone.
The student: No.
The Shaykh : No, it is one body, and it is composed of disparate things. Now, he says:
"From these limbs, such are his limbs *** composed of the four pillars"
The limbs are also composed of four pillars: a right hand and a left hand, a right foot and a left foot. Now,