Reading and commentary on the poet's stanza: The fifth simile: The lamp of the denier of attributes has been blown out by the winds of denial, extinguished and never lit
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The reader: "Extinguished and never lit, and the lamp of the one who likens Allah to creation has had its wick drowned in the camp of likening".
The Shaykh : We have in the camp of likening
The student: ...
The Shaykh : I have a copy of the camp ... put down a copy ... .
The reader: "So do not take light from it, and the lamp of the one who affirms the oneness of Allah is lit from a blessed olive tree, neither eastern nor western[An-Nur 24:35]" The sixth simile.
The Shaykh : ... the denier of attributes lit the lamp ... but the wind came and extinguished it, and the one who likens Allah to creation did not ... and did not benefit from anything; the murky oil means that which floats on the oil such that you cannot ... .
The Shaykh : We have in the camp of likening
The student: ...
The Shaykh : I have a copy of the camp ... put down a copy ... .
The reader: "So do not take light from it, and the lamp of the one who affirms the oneness of Allah is lit from a blessed olive tree, neither eastern nor western
whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire
يكاد زيتها يضيء ولو لم تمسسه نارThe Shaykh : ... the denier of attributes lit the lamp ... but the wind came and extinguished it, and the one who likens Allah to creation did not ... and did not benefit from anything; the murky oil means that which floats on the oil such that you cannot ... .