Commentary on the poet's statement: "In it there is nothing but pure likening of them to Allah, and that is the ugliest slander, while they intended to exalt Him (Glorified and Exalted is He), and they did not deny the attributes of the Most Merciful"
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The Shaykh : He said:
"In it there is nothing but pure likening of them to Allah"
This means: those who took intercessors and mediators likened them to Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
"And that is the ugliest slander"
This means: likening the Creator to the created is the ugliest slander.
"While they intended to exalt Him (Glorified and Exalted is He), and they did not deny the attributes of the Most Merciful"
This means: those who took these idols as intercessors intended thereby to exalt Allah, and they did not deny His attributes. And his saying: "and they did not deny the attributes of the Most Merciful" is a rebuke of whom? It is a rebuke of the *mu'attilah* (those who deny the divine attributes).
"In it there is nothing but pure likening of them to Allah"
This means: those who took intercessors and mediators likened them to Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
"And that is the ugliest slander"
This means: likening the Creator to the created is the ugliest slander.
"While they intended to exalt Him (Glorified and Exalted is He), and they did not deny the attributes of the Most Merciful"
This means: those who took these idols as intercessors intended thereby to exalt Allah, and they did not deny His attributes. And his saying: "and they did not deny the attributes of the Most Merciful" is a rebuke of whom? It is a rebuke of the *mu'attilah* (those who deny the divine attributes).