How to reconcile the fact that the attributes of Allah are based on revelation with the fact that the door to them is open and not closed?
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The questioner : I was confused by the statement made a little while ago regarding the rule in the rules of attributes, where we said that the attributes of Allah are based on revelation. What is the reconciliation between the fact that the attributes of Allah are based on revelation and the fact that the door to them is open...?
The Shaykh : Yes, the difference is this: As for the descriptive attributes, they are undoubtedly based on revelation. As for the essential and active attributes that are not descriptive, whatever is valid to attribute to Allah is permissible, because the actions of Allah have no end.
The reader: Our Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) said: "It is said to him: If you acknowledge this, why do you not have the boldness and courage to affirm what Allah the Exalted has affirmed for Himself, and what His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has affirmed for Him, in its true reality and apparent meaning befitting Allah? And how do you have the boldness and courage to deny that true reality and divert it to a meaning that contradicts its apparent meaning without knowledge? Perhaps the intended meaning is on the assumption that it is permissible to divert them to something other than what you have diverted them to."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
We previously discussed with the people of denial of the divine attributes the fifth point, which is to say to him: Are you more knowledgeable about Allah than He is about Himself? So the answer is, O Muhammad Khalil?
The Shaykh : Yes, the difference is this: As for the descriptive attributes, they are undoubtedly based on revelation. As for the essential and active attributes that are not descriptive, whatever is valid to attribute to Allah is permissible, because the actions of Allah have no end.
The reader: Our Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) said: "It is said to him: If you acknowledge this, why do you not have the boldness and courage to affirm what Allah the Exalted has affirmed for Himself, and what His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has affirmed for Him, in its true reality and apparent meaning befitting Allah? And how do you have the boldness and courage to deny that true reality and divert it to a meaning that contradicts its apparent meaning without knowledge? Perhaps the intended meaning is on the assumption that it is permissible to divert them to something other than what you have diverted them to."
The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
We previously discussed with the people of denial of the divine attributes the fifth point, which is to say to him: Are you more knowledgeable about Allah than He is about Himself? So the answer is, O Muhammad Khalil?