Allah is the Greatest, Exalted above the likeness of the *** servants, so these are two likenesses that are impossible (Exalting Allah above the likeness of the servants and the inanimate) and Allah is the Greatest, One, the Self-Sufficient, and every ***
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The Shaykh : Then it said:
"Allah is the Greatest, Exalted above the likeness of the *** servants, so these are two likenesses that are impossible"
What are they? Likening Him to the inanimate and likening Him to the living servants. He is Exalted above both of these.
"And Allah is the Greatest, One, the Self-Sufficient, so every *** the matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful"
Allah is the Greatest, One, the Self-Sufficient. In the Qur'an[Al-Ikhlas 112:1-2] and in it [Ghafir 40:16] so He is One, the Unique, the Self-Sufficient.
"*** and the matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful"
The entire matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful, because Self-Sufficiency means the perfection of His richness from His creation and the need of His creation for Him. This Self-Sufficiency is the perfection of what? His richness from His creation, and the need of all creation for Him. This is the Self-Sufficiency. For this reason, the entire matter lies in it. He says:
"We deny begetting" because He is rich from it, and "fatherhood from it" because He is the First, before whom there is nothing. If He had a father, He would have needed him, and Allah does not need anyone.
"*** and the equal" because no one can be like Allah the Exalted, which is a necessity for man. Man must have begetting, fatherhood or motherhood, and he must have an equal. All people have equals.
"And thus We affirmed all the attributes *** for Allah, free from any deficiency"
This is His richness. As for the need of others for Him, He said:
"And to Him every created being turns, so there is *** no Self-Sufficient other than Him, the Exalted, the Possessor of Sovereignty"
So what is Self-Sufficiency? The perfection of Allah's richness, and the need of all creation for Him. This is the Self-Sufficiency.
"Allah is the Greatest, Exalted above the likeness of the *** servants, so these are two likenesses that are impossible"
What are they? Likening Him to the inanimate and likening Him to the living servants. He is Exalted above both of these.
"And Allah is the Greatest, One, the Self-Sufficient, so every *** the matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful"
Allah is the Greatest, One, the Self-Sufficient. In the Qur'an
(1) Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One, (2) Allah, the Eternal Refuge.
قل هو الله أحد الله الصمدTo whom belongs [all] sovereignty this Day? To Allah, the One, the Prevailing.
لمن الملك اليوم لله الواحد القهار"*** and the matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful"
The entire matter lies in the Self-Sufficiency of the Most Merciful, because Self-Sufficiency means the perfection of His richness from His creation and the need of His creation for Him. This Self-Sufficiency is the perfection of what? His richness from His creation, and the need of all creation for Him. This is the Self-Sufficiency. For this reason, the entire matter lies in it. He says:
"We deny begetting" because He is rich from it, and "fatherhood from it" because He is the First, before whom there is nothing. If He had a father, He would have needed him, and Allah does not need anyone.
"*** and the equal" because no one can be like Allah the Exalted, which is a necessity for man. Man must have begetting, fatherhood or motherhood, and he must have an equal. All people have equals.
"And thus We affirmed all the attributes *** for Allah, free from any deficiency"
This is His richness. As for the need of others for Him, He said:
"And to Him every created being turns, so there is *** no Self-Sufficient other than Him, the Exalted, the Possessor of Sovereignty"
So what is Self-Sufficiency? The perfection of Allah's richness, and the need of all creation for Him. This is the Self-Sufficiency.