Do we say that Ibrahim (peace be upon him) was defeated in his debate with the tyrannical king when he said to him, "I give life and I cause death..."?

The questioner : Deviating ... from the apparent meaning of the wording ...?

The Shaykh : Yes, do we say Ibrahim was defeated? Glory be to Allah! But if the goal is to establish the truth and cut off the argument, because the evidence in the debate is replaced by something in which the opponent cannot argue, this is undoubtedly silencing the opponent, not a defeat. A defeat would be if his evidence were not clearer and he actually lost. But here, with clearer evidence, he is handed the argument, which serves as proof for you in specifying what you said, because if he is unable to defend against this second evidence, it supports what you said in the first evidence.
As for ta'til (denial of the divine attributes), it is a linguistic matter. You see that these issues, brothers, are not raised because they are in doubt. Do not think that those who raised this objection are in doubt about this or that they follow the path of the ta'tilah (deniers of attributes), but they want to extract the things, because a person may be confronted by someone ...