Allah the Exalted said: “The Most Merciful rose over the Throne.” Is it a clear, decisive verse or an ambiguous one?
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The questioner : And this questioner says: The saying of Allah the Exalted: [Taha 20:5] Is it among the ambiguous verses or among the clear, decisive ones?
The Shaykh : This is not among the ambiguous verses, as Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: “The rising is not unknown”, but the how is not known, not comprehensible, and this ambiguity regarding the how of the rising does not make the rising itself ambiguous, because the rising is known, and it is being above the thing. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.
الرحمن على العرش استوىThe Shaykh : This is not among the ambiguous verses, as Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: “The rising is not unknown”, but the how is not known, not comprehensible, and this ambiguity regarding the how of the rising does not make the rising itself ambiguous, because the rising is known, and it is being above the thing. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.