Guide-to-Sound-Creed-A-Book-on-Muslim-Creed-and-Faith

Principle 1: Belief in Allah, Mighty and Exalted be He
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<strong>to</strong> unjustifiable or implicit explanations of His speech, despite
His ability <strong>to</strong> explicitly express the truth in unambiguous terms,
is certainly regarded as keeping wrong thoughts about his Lord.
If a man argues that Allah is incompetent <strong>to</strong> express the truth
in unequivocal terms, he will be held as wrongly attributing
deficiency <strong>to</strong> Allah. Similarly, if a man argues that Allah is
competent <strong>to</strong> express the truth in unequivocal terms, but He
inclines <strong>to</strong> ambiguity, which results in false beliefs, such a man
will be regarded as mistrusting Allah's Wisdom and Mercy. As
for those who deem that they could express the truth in clear
language while Allah and His Messenger could not, and claim
that true guidance and truth lie in their own speech while the
words ofAllah only imply resemblances and doubtful meanings,
they are the ones who maintain the worst and evilest thoughts
about Allah. Furthermore, whoever wrongly believes that Allah
completely lacks hearing, sight, knowledge and free will, or
that He lacks speech by which He can communicate with His
creatures, is considered as retaining wrong thoughts about Allah.
Additionally, whoever wrongly presumes that Allah does not
establish Himself above His Mighty Throne is truly keeping evil
thoughts about Him."
Ibnul-Qayyim in the aforementioned quotation meant the Jahmiyyah,
the Mutazilites and Ash' ariyyah who denied all attributes of perfection due <strong>to</strong>
Almighty Allah. By denying such attributes, they conversely attached deficiencies
<strong>to</strong> Allah. By contradicting the Qur'an and the Sunnah, should such deviating sects
be held more knowledgeable than Allah and His Messenger? What a great error
they commit! How should we believe that such a group of ignorant people are
more knowledgeable than Almighty Allah Who says:
"He {i.e., Allah] knows whatis [presently] before them andwhat will
be after them, but they do not encompass it [i.e., what He knows] in
knowledge." (Qur'an: Ta-Ha: 110)
Moreover, no one but Allah's Messenger (PBUH) knows best about Allah and
His appropriate Attributes.
Only misunderstanding and ignorance have led the Jahmiyyah and
their followers <strong>to</strong> deny Allah's Attributes which have been established
by Him and His Messenger. The Jahmiyyah presume that approving of
such Attributes which may be identified in mankind, necessarily leads
<strong>to</strong> anthropomorphism. They have reached this conclusion because they