Explanation of the author's statement: "The refutation of these people is from several angles: the first is refuting their doubts and their arguments"
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The Shaykh :"The refutation of these people is from several angles:
The first is refuting their doubts and their arguments, and that they are compelled to accept in what they affirmed a likeness to what they fled from in what they denied".
This is very important, refuting the doubts and the arguments.
An example of that, let us take an example for this:
If they say: The intended meaning of the hand is power, not the reality, because if we affirmed a real hand for Allah, it would necessitate that He be similar to the created, since the created has a hand, do you understand?
We say to them simply: Does the created have power or not? If you affirm that Allah has power, then according to your rule, it necessitates that He be similar to the created, because power is similar in your view, just as hands are similar in your view. Therefore, you are compelled to accept in what you affirmed a likeness to what is compelled upon you in what you denied. Indeed, it is worse than that, because this leads you to fall into what you fled from, and additionally to distort the text. As for those who said by its apparent meaning, they are, in the sense that that is likening, they did not fall into anything but? Only in the likening. As for you, you fell into the likening and into distorting the texts.
And this is the meaning of the statement "they are compelled to accept in what they affirmed a likeness to what they fled from in what they denied". So the statement is that it is compelled upon them in addition to that.
The first is refuting their doubts and their arguments, and that they are compelled to accept in what they affirmed a likeness to what they fled from in what they denied".
This is very important, refuting the doubts and the arguments.
An example of that, let us take an example for this:
If they say: The intended meaning of the hand is power, not the reality, because if we affirmed a real hand for Allah, it would necessitate that He be similar to the created, since the created has a hand, do you understand?
We say to them simply: Does the created have power or not? If you affirm that Allah has power, then according to your rule, it necessitates that He be similar to the created, because power is similar in your view, just as hands are similar in your view. Therefore, you are compelled to accept in what you affirmed a likeness to what is compelled upon you in what you denied. Indeed, it is worse than that, because this leads you to fall into what you fled from, and additionally to distort the text. As for those who said by its apparent meaning, they are, in the sense that that is likening, they did not fall into anything but? Only in the likening. As for you, you fell into the likening and into distorting the texts.
And this is the meaning of the statement "they are compelled to accept in what they affirmed a likeness to what they fled from in what they denied". So the statement is that it is compelled upon them in addition to that.