Is the intended meaning of "His knowledge" in His saying, the Exalted: << ولا يحيطون بشيئ من علمه إلا بما شآء >> that it is known, and in His saying, the Exalted:
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The questioner : ... (Glorified and Exalted is He) ... and they do not encompass anything of His knowledge except what He wills
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : What we say is that this is specific to what is known
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : That what corresponds to it corresponds to it, and they do not encompass His knowledge[Taha 20:110] so this is specific to His Essence, and they do not encompass His Essence in knowledge, and when it is specific to what is known ... He said except what He wills, and with that verse ... except what He wills
The Shaykh : Yes, even the knowledge of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, regarding what concerns Allah, we know it if Allah wills. For this reason, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, informed us of many things that we would not know by our intellects were it not for transmission. Likewise, the Messenger informed us: Who knows that Allah descends to the lowest heaven when the last third of the night remains? No one knows this until it is mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah. We would not know of the rising above the Throne were it not that it came in the Book and the Sunnah, because it is an attribute of hearing that is not established except by hearing. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : What we say is that this is specific to what is known
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : That what corresponds to it corresponds to it, and they do not encompass His knowledge
but they do not encompass it in knowledge.
ولا يحيطون به علماThe Shaykh : Yes, even the knowledge of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, regarding what concerns Allah, we know it if Allah wills. For this reason, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, informed us of many things that we would not know by our intellects were it not for transmission. Likewise, the Messenger informed us: Who knows that Allah descends to the lowest heaven when the last third of the night remains? No one knows this until it is mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah. We would not know of the rising above the Throne were it not that it came in the Book and the Sunnah, because it is an attribute of hearing that is not established except by hearing. Yes.