Commentary on the poet's statement: "So you made the negation of attributes detailed *** detailing the negation of defect and imperfection"
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The Shaykh :"So you made the negation of attributes detailed *** detailing the negation of defect and imperfection"
And for this reason, you will find in their books: "Allah is not a substance, nor an attribute, nor such, nor such, nor such, nor above, nor below, nor right, nor left, yes, nor deaf, nor blind, nor dumb, and the like." You hardly find among them an affirmative attribute. When the time is up, let me know?
The student: It is finished.
The Shaykh : Is it finished?
Huh?
The student: "And you made the affirmation a general matter ***"
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author said, in explaining the path of the people of denial of the divine attributes, he said:
"So you made the negation of attributes detailed *** detailing the negation of defect and imperfection"
This means that the people of denial of the divine attributes prioritized what is in one [category], meaning that the people of denial of the divine attributes followed a path contrary to the path of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. So they detailed the negation and generalized the affirmation, whereas the path of the Book and the Sunnah is to detail the affirmation and generalize the negation.
"And you made the affirmation a general matter *** the opposite of what they stated with proof"
And for this reason, you will find in their books: "Allah is not a substance, nor an attribute, nor such, nor such, nor such, nor above, nor below, nor right, nor left, yes, nor deaf, nor blind, nor dumb, and the like." You hardly find among them an affirmative attribute. When the time is up, let me know?
The student: It is finished.
The Shaykh : Is it finished?
Huh?
The student: "And you made the affirmation a general matter ***"
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author said, in explaining the path of the people of denial of the divine attributes, he said:
"So you made the negation of attributes detailed *** detailing the negation of defect and imperfection"
This means that the people of denial of the divine attributes prioritized what is in one [category], meaning that the people of denial of the divine attributes followed a path contrary to the path of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. So they detailed the negation and generalized the affirmation, whereas the path of the Book and the Sunnah is to detail the affirmation and generalize the negation.
"And you made the affirmation a general matter *** the opposite of what they stated with proof"