The first incorrect opinion regarding this Attribute is the saying that Allah is everywhere.

Hulooliyyah ‘Aamah - (Hulool means to occupy a space, or be around). This is like the saying of Jahm ibn Safwan (the first to reject Allah’s ‘Uluww) that Allah is like the air, i.e. all around us.
Hulooliyyah Khaasah - the belief that […]

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This has 3 connotations, Allah is highest in 1) His Control, 2) His Power, and 3) His Essence.
In reality, this is something that does not need to be proved, but because of the statements of some deviant groups on this issue, it has become necessary.
The proofs regarding this issue are too many to enumerate. This […]

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This is a subset of the issue of Allah’s Kalam. That is because the Quran is the Speech of Allah, it is uncreated. The Mu’tazilah and Ash’aris have deviated in their understanding of the Qur’an. The end result of the beleifs of both of these groups is that either the Quran is created outright, or […]

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Ahlus Sunnah
Ahlus Sunnah affirms Allah’s Kalam. He speaks whenever He wills, His Speech is heard, He speaks with words and letters, and His speech is eternal and uncreated.
And Allah spoke directly (kallama) to Musa [4:164]
And,
And when he came to it (the fire), he was called by name: “O Musa (Moses)! Verily! I am your Lord! […]

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We need to differentiate between two things:
1) Metaphoric words (Majaaz).
2) Metaphoric sentences (not majaaz).
Metaphoric Sentences:
For example, when we say: “Zaid is a fox”, we do not mean: Zaid is an actual fox, the animal. From the context we understand that we are only giving a metaphor of how cunning Zaid is.
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The word Tawassul comes from the word “Al Wasila”
Definition of Al Wasila
Al-Khalil bin Ahmad (100-170 H.) said in “al Ayn”:
“Wassaltu to my Lord Wasilatan, means: I did a deed that by which I drew near to Him. And I did tawassul to someone by a book or a relative, means that […]

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The Honored Shaikh, Allama Abdur Rahman Nasir al Barrak may Allah Protect him answered the following question regarding tafwidh:
There is a tafwidh type of doubt which the Ashaira innovators have repeated. They say:

You Salafis say about all of Allah’s Attributes: that the meaning is known but the howness is unknown. So what is your […]

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Mutawaatir: That which has been narrated by a number of people in every level of the chain such that it is impossible for all of them to make a mistake or error. Ahad is the opposite in that it contains less than 4 narrators at any given level of the isnaad. Mutawatir has more than […]

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Simply affirming the fact that the Quran is clear is enough to refute the previous concepts discussed.  It was revealed in a clear language such that the scholar and bedouin both can recite and understand it. While the scholar will obviously be able to extract much more benefit and wisdom from it, that benefit and […]

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Tafwid literally means to relegate, or to entrust someone with something. It is found in the ayah, “…my affair I commit (ufawwidu) to Allah…” (40:44).
For the scholars of kalam it means to relegate the meanings of the Attributes of Allah without explaining them or discussing them. This was unknown to the early scholars and doesn’t […]

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