A question regarding the Asha'irah's definition of the speech of Allah the Exalted and the contradiction therein?
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The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : If they say it is a single meaning, how do they explain the command and the prohibition?
The Shaykh : Yes, he says: The implication of the command is the command, and the implication of the prohibition is leaving it off; or the implication of the command is the action, and the implication of the prohibition is leaving it off. But they are one thing, because they do not hold that Allah the Exalted divides His speech. This very speech is this speech, but the form differed according to what people heard of this expression.
The questioner : They interpret it as having said it.
The Shaykh : Yes, he tells you this is a command, a command [Al-Isra 17:32] a prohibition, but this is the very same as this.
Therefore, their speech is something a human being can never conceive of. How can the command be the very same as the prohibition? He says: Yes, because it is not possible for us to say that Allah spoke with two speeches. He said: [Al-Isra 17:32], because speech, in their view, cannot be divided at all. Just as the knowledge by which He described Himself is not divided, so is speech, because they hold that it is a meaning subsisting in the Self. And these things—the command, the prohibition, the report, and the inquiry—are things Allah the Exalted created to express what is in His Self, and Allah knows best.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : If they say it is a single meaning, how do they explain the command and the prohibition?
The Shaykh : Yes, he says: The implication of the command is the command, and the implication of the prohibition is leaving it off; or the implication of the command is the action, and the implication of the prohibition is leaving it off. But they are one thing, because they do not hold that Allah the Exalted divides His speech. This very speech is this speech, but the form differed according to what people heard of this expression.
The questioner : They interpret it as having said it.
The Shaykh : Yes, he tells you this is a command,
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أقم الصلاةdo not approach unlawful sexual intercourse
لا تقربوا الزنىTherefore, their speech is something a human being can never conceive of. How can the command be the very same as the prohibition? He says: Yes, because it is not possible for us to say that Allah spoke with two speeches. He said: