If that is made clear, we know that the implication of His being with His servants is that He knows their conditions, hears their words, sees their actions, and manages their affairs; He gives life and causes death, enriches and impoverishes, grants sovereignty to whom He wills, removes sovereignty from whom He wills, honors whom He wills, and humbles whom He wills, among other things that His Lordship and the perfection of His power necessitate. Nothing prevents Him from His creation, and whoever is in this state is truly with His creation, even if He is truly above them on His Throne.
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The Shaykh :"If that is made clear, we know that the implication of His being with His servants is that He knows their conditions, hears their words, sees their actions, and manages their affairs; He gives life and causes death, enriches and impoverishes, grants sovereignty to whom He wills, removes sovereignty from whom He wills, honors whom He wills, and humbles whom He wills, among other things that His Lordship and the perfection of His power necessitate. Nothing prevents Him from His creation, and whoever is in this state is truly with His creation, even if He is truly above them on His Throne." In your view... and it has been previously stated that *mu'ayyah* (being with) in the Arabic language does not necessitate mixing or accompanying in the same place. "The Shaykh al-Islam said in *Al-'Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah*, page 140, volume 3 of *Majmu' al-Fatawa* by Ibn al-Qasim, in the chapter on the discussion of *mu'ayyah*: 'All this speech mentioned by Allah the Exalted, that He is above the Throne and that He is with us, is true in its reality and does not require distortion, but it must be protected from false suspicions.'" What are the false suspicions regarding this verse? That He is mixed with the creation.
