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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the author's statement: "And the people of the Sunnah have agreed that they are two real hands that do not resemble the hands of the created beings, and it is not permissible to distort their meaning to power

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The Shaykh : Then he said: "And the people of the Sunnah have agreed that they are two real hands that do not resemble the hands of the created beings", the correct wording is "do not equal them," is that correct in your view?
The student : O Shaykh ...

The Shaykh : That is, interpreting the hands as grace and power is "a meaning that the language rejects in the context in which it came, attributed to Allah the Exalted", pay attention to the conditions, a meaning that the language rejects, which language? Arabic, because it is the language in which the Qur'an was revealed, as Allah the Exalted said
(192) And indeed, the Qur'an is the revelation of the Lord of the worlds. (193) The Trustworthy Spirit has brought it down (194) Upon your heart, [O Muhammad] - that you may be of the warners - (195) In a clear Arabic language. وإنه لتنزيل رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك لتكون من المنذرين بلسان عربي مبين
[Ash-Shu'ara 26:192-195]
So the Arabic language rejects that the intended meaning of the hand is grace or power, not absolutely, but in the context in which it came, attributed to Allah.
"For Allah the Exalted said
to that which I created with My hands لما خلقت بيديّ
[Sad 38:75]
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He is saying to Iblis, what prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My hands, the language rejects that the intended meaning of the hands here is grace or power, why? He said, and it is not correct for the meaning to be 'what I created with My grace' or 'with My power,' because the grace of Allah is countless and uncountable, as He the Exalted said
And if you should count the favors of Allah, you could not enumerate them وإن تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحصوها
[An-Nahl 16:18]
They are not just two blessings, and is the power of Allah multiple or singular? Singular, how can He say 'with My powers'? So it is not correct for the intended meaning of the hand in this specific context to be grace or power, and it has passed us many times that determining the meaning of a word is according to the context, so this word may be capable of a meaning in one context but not in another.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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