(Exonerating Allah from this composition) Is this a necessary attribute for our Lord? *** And His being above every place? Perhaps your ignorant one says, boasting: *** This is a necessary proof of affirmation.
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The Shaykh : Now, "Is this a necessary attribute for our Lord? *** And His being above every place?"
Meaning, does it necessitate that the human being has this composition of multiplicity? No. If this is not necessary for the created being, how can it be necessary for the Creator? So the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has multiple attributes: hearing, sight, knowledge, power, and other attributes. And this does not necessitate what? It does not necessitate multiplicity.
"Perhaps your ignorant one says, boasting: *** This is a necessary proof of affirmation by evidence"
Meaning, perhaps the ignorant one among you says that this is necessary, meaning that this composition necessitates multiplicity. But he says this out of arrogance, stubbornness, and evasion. Otherwise, the reality of the matter is that it is not so.
"So falsehood is cheap in your price *** Heaped up without measure or scale"
Falsehood means lying, and its price is cheap, yes, or for nothing, yes. And yet, it is heaped up without measure or scale. Whoever comes says, "The wise man is a qirsh, give it to me," yes. And there is no doubt that this is a bad mount, a bad mount for a man, they claim. So these people, and may Allah protect us from them, do not care if they lie, or tell falsehoods, or say something that does not enter the mind, claiming that it is the mind.
Meaning, does it necessitate that the human being has this composition of multiplicity? No. If this is not necessary for the created being, how can it be necessary for the Creator? So the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has multiple attributes: hearing, sight, knowledge, power, and other attributes. And this does not necessitate what? It does not necessitate multiplicity.
"Perhaps your ignorant one says, boasting: *** This is a necessary proof of affirmation by evidence"
Meaning, perhaps the ignorant one among you says that this is necessary, meaning that this composition necessitates multiplicity. But he says this out of arrogance, stubbornness, and evasion. Otherwise, the reality of the matter is that it is not so.
"So falsehood is cheap in your price *** Heaped up without measure or scale"
Falsehood means lying, and its price is cheap, yes, or for nothing, yes. And yet, it is heaped up without measure or scale. Whoever comes says, "The wise man is a qirsh, give it to me," yes. And there is no doubt that this is a bad mount, a bad mount for a man, they claim. So these people, and may Allah protect us from them, do not care if they lie, or tell falsehoods, or say something that does not enter the mind, claiming that it is the mind.