As for the verse in Surat al-Hadid, Allah the Exalted mentioned it preceded by a mention of His rising above the Throne and the comprehensiveness of His knowledge, and followed by a clarification that He is All-Seeing of what the servants do.

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The Shaykh :"As for the verse in Surat al-Hadid, Allah the Exalted mentioned it preceded by a mention of His rising above the Throne and the comprehensiveness of His knowledge, and followed by a clarification that He is All-Seeing of what the servants do. He said:

It is He who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein; and He is with you wherever you are. And Allah, of what you do, is Seeing.

هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يَعْلَمُ مَا يَلِجُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَمَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا وَمَا يَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَمَا يَعْرُجُ فِيهَا وَهُوَ مَعَكُمْ أَيْنَ مَا كُنْتُمْ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

[Al-Hadid 57:4]

" It is clear that the intended meaning is not that He is on earth, because if the intended meaning were that He is on earth, it would contradict the beginning of the verse, which is His saying:

He settled upon the Throne

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, because one who has risen above the Throne cannot be on earth. He said: "Thus, the apparent meaning of the verse is that the implication of this presence is His knowledge of His servants and His seeing of their actions, along with His being above them and His rising above the Throne, not that He, Glorified is He, is mixed with them, nor that He is with them on earth. Otherwise, the end of the verse would contradict its beginning, which indicates His being above them and His rising above the Throne".

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