The Fourth Rank: Creation: So we believe that Allah the Exalted
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The Shaykh :"The Fourth Rank: Creation" means: that Allah created everything. "So we believe that Allah the Exalted: [Az-Zumar 39:62-63] ". Good.
The Creator of everything, everything is created for Allah. Brother? Is the human being created for Allah? Is his work created for Allah? Even his movement is created for Allah? Did Allah not create the human being and say, "I made him as He willed"? Yes?
The student: The first.
The Shaykh : The first one, every movement is a creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and every stillness is a creation of Allah. Yes.[Al-An'am 6:102].
The amazing thing is that the Jahmiyyah used the noble verse as evidence that the Qur'an is created, and this evidence is invalid, because the created thing is separate and distinct from the Creator, since the created thing necessitates three things: a Creator, a creation, and a created thing. So the created thing is not among the attributes of the Creator. Is that not so?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is among the attributes of the Creator? The creation is distinct and separate from Him, so is the Qur'an a distinct, separate thing, meaning a tangible thing seen by the eye, or is it speech, which is an attribute of the Speaker?
The student: The second.
The Shaykh : The second point, so how do you say that Allah is the Creator of the Qur'an? It is absolutely impossible; rather, the Qur'an is His attribute, because it is His speech, and a person's attribute is not among his actions.
Good. I gave you a date and you ate it; is your action the date? Or is the date eaten, and the eating is other than the eaten?
The student: The second.
The Shaykh : The second point? Good, and are you the eating?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : You are the eater, and your chewing is eating, and the chewed thing is eaten.
So it is obligatory for the human being to distinguish between the distinct action and the action which is an attribute of the doer.
So the Qur'an is the speech of Allah, and the verse does not indicate that, because Allah is the Creator of everything, so it necessitates that the created thing be distinct and separate from the Creator.
He said: meaning: the Preserver [Az-Zumar 39:63] of the keys, the keys, meaning: that the keys of all matters are in the hand of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
(62) Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is, over all things, Disposer of affairs. (63) To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth.
خالق كل شيء وهو على كل شيء وكيل * له مقاليد السموات والأرضThe Creator of everything, everything is created for Allah. Brother? Is the human being created for Allah? Is his work created for Allah? Even his movement is created for Allah? Did Allah not create the human being and say, "I made him as He willed"? Yes?
The student: The first.
The Shaykh : The first one, every movement is a creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and every stillness is a creation of Allah. Yes.
the Creator of all things
خالق كل شيءThe amazing thing is that the Jahmiyyah used the noble verse as evidence that the Qur'an is created, and this evidence is invalid, because the created thing is separate and distinct from the Creator, since the created thing necessitates three things: a Creator, a creation, and a created thing. So the created thing is not among the attributes of the Creator. Is that not so?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : What is among the attributes of the Creator? The creation is distinct and separate from Him, so is the Qur'an a distinct, separate thing, meaning a tangible thing seen by the eye, or is it speech, which is an attribute of the Speaker?
The student: The second.
The Shaykh : The second point, so how do you say that Allah is the Creator of the Qur'an? It is absolutely impossible; rather, the Qur'an is His attribute, because it is His speech, and a person's attribute is not among his actions.
Good. I gave you a date and you ate it; is your action the date? Or is the date eaten, and the eating is other than the eaten?
The student: The second.
The Shaykh : The second point? Good, and are you the eating?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : You are the eater, and your chewing is eating, and the chewed thing is eaten.
So it is obligatory for the human being to distinguish between the distinct action and the action which is an attribute of the doer.
So the Qur'an is the speech of Allah, and the verse does not indicate that, because Allah is the Creator of everything, so it necessitates that the created thing be distinct and separate from the Creator.
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