If someone says that Paradise and what is in it are things that actually exist, is this something that is specific to the knowledge of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He)?
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The student : ......?
The Shaykh : No, not at all. We know of Paradise from one aspect and are ignorant of it from another aspect.
The student: .......?
The Shaykh : Yes, we know the names from this, but not the things named.
The student: ...?
The Shaykh : Yes, this is actual knowledge. We know that there is a Paradise now, and there is a Fire, and in them is what is mentioned of bliss or punishment.
The student : ......
The Shaykh : Correct. Because if a person now informs you of a fact in your country, for example, yes, or even in your house now where you are staying, you know the meaning, but you do not know the reality as it is unless you see it.
The student: In the name of Allah, and all praise is for Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.
The third: Explaining what necessitates false implications if it is denied, because the corruption of the necessary consequence indicates the corruption of the thing necessitating it.
The fourth: ..... of attributes that do not admit of figurative interpretation, and even if some of them do, there is nothing in them that prevents intending the apparent meaning, so it is necessary to adhere to it.
The fifth: That the claim of these...
The Shaykh : No, not at all. We know of Paradise from one aspect and are ignorant of it from another aspect.
The student: .......?
The Shaykh : Yes, we know the names from this, but not the things named.
The student: ...?
The Shaykh : Yes, this is actual knowledge. We know that there is a Paradise now, and there is a Fire, and in them is what is mentioned of bliss or punishment.
The student : ......
The Shaykh : Correct. Because if a person now informs you of a fact in your country, for example, yes, or even in your house now where you are staying, you know the meaning, but you do not know the reality as it is unless you see it.
The student: In the name of Allah, and all praise is for Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.
The third: Explaining what necessitates false implications if it is denied, because the corruption of the necessary consequence indicates the corruption of the thing necessitating it.
The fourth: ..... of attributes that do not admit of figurative interpretation, and even if some of them do, there is nothing in them that prevents intending the apparent meaning, so it is necessary to adhere to it.
The fifth: That the claim of these...