Can we say that every asking how an attribute is is likening Allah to creation?
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The questioner : If someone were to say, for example, that every likening Allah to creation is asking how an attribute is, and every asking how an attribute is is likening Allah to creation, and he offered as a reason that asking how an attribute is ... or seeing its like, or a truthful report
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : ... of its existence by it, so ... therefore every asking how an attribute is is likening Allah to creation
The Shaykh : No, that is not correct, that is not correct, because perhaps you imagine in your mind a specific manner that has no counterpart, so there is no likening Allah to creation in that. Do you see now? If you imagine something with a hand, a hand in every hand with a hundred fingers, in every finger a hundred thousand nails, yes, in every nail a hundred thousand colors. Do you imagine this? And what you do not imagine has no counterpart. So mental imagination has no limit, to the point that a person might imagine in his mind combining two contradictory things.
The student : The time, Shaykh
The Shaykh : It is over.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : ... of its existence by it, so ... therefore every asking how an attribute is is likening Allah to creation
The Shaykh : No, that is not correct, that is not correct, because perhaps you imagine in your mind a specific manner that has no counterpart, so there is no likening Allah to creation in that. Do you see now? If you imagine something with a hand, a hand in every hand with a hundred fingers, in every finger a hundred thousand nails, yes, in every nail a hundred thousand colors. Do you imagine this? And what you do not imagine has no counterpart. So mental imagination has no limit, to the point that a person might imagine in his mind combining two contradictory things.
The student : The time, Shaykh
The Shaykh : It is over.