The Seventh Principle: Distorting the names of Allah the Exalted is deviating from what is required of them.
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The Shaykh : What they indicate regarding attributes and rulings: to deny one of them. Has anyone among the people who face the Ka'bah denied any of them?
The answer: Yes, among them are those who say it is not permissible to affirm a name or an attribute for Allah, because if we affirm a name for Him, we liken Him to the existing creatures. Well, if you deny it, we say to him: if you deny it, you have likened Him to non-existent things. If he says, "I do not affirm this or that," we say, "You have likened Him to impossibilities." And praise be to Allah, the people of falsehood are pursued; whatever they hide behind, they are exposed, and praise be to Allah.
So we say: whoever denies affirmation must affirm negation. And whoever affirms negation has likened Him to non-existent things. And if he denies both negation and affirmation, he has likened Him to impossibilities, because it is not possible for a thing to be neither existent nor non-existent. For the opposition of existence and non-existence is from the category of the opposition of two contradictories, one of which must exist. Well.
Likewise, has anyone among those who claim Islam affirmed the names and denied the attributes? Yes, like the Mu'tazilah. Well, and some people affirmed some attributes, which is few, and denied the rest, like the Asha'irah. Yes, he says: "And that is considered distortion because it is obligatory to believe in them and in the rulings and attributes befitting Allah Mighty and Majestic that they indicate". It is obligatory to believe in them and in the rulings and attributes befitting Allah that they indicate. It has been mentioned previously that belief in the name requires what? Three things in the transitive and two in the intransitive.
The answer: Yes, among them are those who say it is not permissible to affirm a name or an attribute for Allah, because if we affirm a name for Him, we liken Him to the existing creatures. Well, if you deny it, we say to him: if you deny it, you have likened Him to non-existent things. If he says, "I do not affirm this or that," we say, "You have likened Him to impossibilities." And praise be to Allah, the people of falsehood are pursued; whatever they hide behind, they are exposed, and praise be to Allah.
So we say: whoever denies affirmation must affirm negation. And whoever affirms negation has likened Him to non-existent things. And if he denies both negation and affirmation, he has likened Him to impossibilities, because it is not possible for a thing to be neither existent nor non-existent. For the opposition of existence and non-existence is from the category of the opposition of two contradictories, one of which must exist. Well.
Likewise, has anyone among those who claim Islam affirmed the names and denied the attributes? Yes, like the Mu'tazilah. Well, and some people affirmed some attributes, which is few, and denied the rest, like the Asha'irah. Yes, he says: "And that is considered distortion because it is obligatory to believe in them and in the rulings and attributes befitting Allah Mighty and Majestic that they indicate". It is obligatory to believe in them and in the rulings and attributes befitting Allah that they indicate. It has been mentioned previously that belief in the name requires what? Three things in the transitive and two in the intransitive.