GRAVE ERRORS

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It becomes clear from the above that this tawheed of names and attributes is damaged by various mistakes which should be avoided by Muslims especially and all other people in general.

They are as follows:

 

1. Comparison or Likening (Tashbeeh and Tamtheel)

2. Distortion (Tahreef)

3. Negation (Ta'teel)

4. Asking How (Takyeef)

 

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1. Comparison or Likening (Tashbeeh and Tamtheel)

 

Comparing or likening the attributes of the creator to the attributes of the created such as the Christians who believe Christ the son of Mary to be Allah the Exalted and possess His abilities, the Jews who compared Uzair to Allah, the polytheists who likened their idols to Allah. Some sects compared the face of Allah with the human face, Allah's hand to the human hand, His hearing to human hearing, and so on.

 

When we say that Allah has life, it must be understood that:

 

a) There is no metaphor here, i.e., that His life is real

b) That this is an attribute of perfection as opposed to death

c) That His life is not in any way like our living

 

Likewise, we believe that He has two hands because He mentioned this in the Qur’aan. But we believe that there is absolutely no resemblance between His hands and His creatures' hands.

 

The Messenger (sallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said:

Our Lord descends every night to the lowest heaven and He calls: "Is there anyone asking for forgiveness? I will forgive him. Is there anyone asking for anything? I will give him. Is there anyone repenting? I will accept his repentance." And He continues to say this until dawn.

(Muslim)

 

We therefore believe that He descends every night to the lowest heaven, but that His descending is unlike that of His creatures and that it does not involve moving from one place to another. Even as He descends, He continues to be above heavens and above the throne (al-‘arsh). To believe otherwise would be implying that Allah could in some way be contained within the creation which He has stated is not possible and it would be likening it to the descent of His creation. Allah has many other attributes mentioned in the Qur’aan or the hadeeth such as highness, that He is above the heavens, that He laughs, that He becomes wrathful, etc.

 

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2. Distortion (Tahreef)

 

Namely, to distort the intended or apparent meaning through false interpretation, change or alteration. An example is the alteration of the wordings of the names and attributes, by adding to them, subtracting from them or changing the grammatical constructions. For example, the verse: "And Allah spoke directly to Moses" [soorah An-Nisaa (4): Aayah 163]. The Arabic word Allah was changed to the accusative case making Allah the object in the sentence according to the deviants to indicate that Moses spoke to Allah , thereby negating Allah's attribute of talking.

 

The safest method to use in order to avoid distortion is the method of the early generations of Muslims (as-salaf). They confirmed the attributes which Allah had confirmed for Himself and which His Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) had confirmed for Him, without distorting interpretation nor making comparisons that are unbefitting of the Majesty and Oneness of Allah . We affirm the attributes mentioned in the Qur'aan and then Sunnah, such as the face, the two hands, the occupation of the Throne, the descent to the lower heaven, anger, pleasure, and so on, without comparing them to human attributes or interpreting them in a way that leads to their being negated. We reiterate what Imam Ash-Shaafi’i (rahimahullah) said: "I believe in Allah and in what revelation tells about Him, in the manner He intended, and I believe in the Messenger of Allah , and in what was related about the Messenger of Allah , in the manner that He intended."

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3. Negation (Ta'teel)

 

Negating divine attributes, and denying their existence in Allah . One example of this is negating the perfection of Allah by denying His names and attributes, or negating the proper conduct towards Allah by abandoning His worship, or preventing people from knowing or worshipping their Creator. This would be like those who deny the fact that Allah created the universe and claim that it developed and evolved of its own accord.

 

A grave mistake that many people make when trying to understand Allah 's attributes is to say that He cannot have sight because this implies eyes and eyes are created by Him; that He cannot have a throne because this implies that He needs some of His creation (i.e. a throne to rest on); that He cannot be above the heavens and cannot ascend or descend because He created heavens, places and distances. They conjecture that His sight is His knowledge, His hands are His capability, His ascending the Throne symbolizes conquering it, and so on.

 

This type of thinking is what we usually refer to as suspending or neutralizing Allah 's attributes. It involves altering the meanings of those attributes that one cannot fully comprehend. This is a danger that should be carefully avoided in order to keep our knowledge of the faith clear and uncontaminated, following the examples set to us by the sahaabah (companions of the Prophet, radiAllahu ‘anhum) and their true followers.