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The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

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Chapter Six- Devil's <strong>Deception</strong> of those from Our Ummah<br />

"Allah descends to the lowest heaven". <strong>The</strong>y said: He who descends<br />

must originally be higher. <strong>The</strong>se people understood Allah's descent<br />

to be similar to the descent of objects. <strong>The</strong>y erred <strong>by</strong> drawing similarities<br />

between Allah's Attributes and tangibles. I have mentioned<br />

most of their opinions in my book titled ''Minhdj al- Wiifui Ila 'Jim al­<br />

Uftil" (fhe Methodology of Arriving at the Foundational Science).<br />

Some Mushabbihah (those who draw similarities between Allah and<br />

His creation) might believe that they would see Allah on the Day of<br />

Judgrnent just as they saw a human but much more beautiful. And<br />

when they heard Prophetic traditions that mentioned getting nearer<br />

to Allah, they imagined physical closeness just as one human gets<br />

closer to another. All of this was because of ignorance in Allah.<br />

Other people said: Allah had the attribute of having a Face, not to<br />

mean Hirnsel£ <strong>The</strong>y based this on the verses:<br />

"And there will remain the Face of your Lord",<br />

[al-Rapmdn (55): 27]<br />

and that He had fingers because Allah's Messenger () said: "Allah<br />

will put the heavens on one finger."105 And that Allah has a foot.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y concluded all of this because they applied concepts related to<br />

sensed things (to Allah's Attributes).<br />

<strong>The</strong> correct way is to understand Qur'anic verses and Prophetic<br />

traditions (as they are) without elaboration.<br />

What was it that made them not believe that the meaning of "Face"<br />

was ''Se!f? Do they not see that scholars have explained the verse<br />

"thf!Y seek His Face" to mean: they seek Hirn. And what made them<br />

105 Bukhari 1 3/393/7414, and Muslim 4/2147 /2786.<br />

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