And for this reason, when Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about the saying of Allah the Exalted: {The Most Merciful rose above the Throne}, how did He rise?

The Shaykh :"And for this reason, when Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about the saying of Allah the Exalted," Malik is Ibn Anas, the famous imam, known as the Imam of the City of Migration (may Allah have mercy on him). When he was asked about the saying of Allah the Exalted: How did He rise? A man among the people asked, saying: How did He rise? This man's question could be a question of denial, because some people deny the rising. It could also be a challenging question, as if he is saying, "If you affirm the rising in meaning, then affirm it in its manner." It could also be a question seeking guidance, where he thinks that such a question is permissible. All these possibilities are possible. But Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) lowered his head in silence until sweat covered his body, he was dripping with sweat. It appears, and Allah knows best, that this happened to him because the question is great. Imagine Malik being asked about the manner of Allah's rising, or any person sweating profusely. Then he raised his head and said: "The rising is not unknown" Not unknown in meaning. "And the how is not comprehensible" The how is not comprehensible, meaning it is not grasped by the intellect. If it is not grasped by the intellect, by what means do we grasp it? By transmission. And there is no transmission. And the words of Malik (may Allah have mercy on him), when he said it is not comprehensible, mean that we do not affirm the attributes or their manner by the intellect, so we need transmission, and there is no transmission in this. "And belief in it is obligatory" Belief in it, meaning in the rising, is obligatory in the known meaning which he said is not unknown. "And asking about it is an innovation" Asking about what? About the rising, about the meaning or about the manner? About the manner. Asking about it is an innovation.
These words deserve to be written with gold ink on pages of silver, because they are great words from an imam of the Sunnah (may Allah have mercy on him). "And it is also narrated from his shaykh, Rabi'ah, in the same way: 'The rising is not unknown, the how is not comprehensible'" Exactly the same.