The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The differences between scholars regarding the meanings of exaltation ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 89 من الجزء One

A group did not imitate, did not anthropomorphize, and transferred the knowledge of that which was mentioned in the words of God and His messengers to God Almighty, and did not enter into the door of interpretation, and were satisfied with mere belief in what God knows in these words and letters, without interpretation or conversion to any aspect of transcendence. Rather, they said, “No.” I know one sentence, but I refer to keeping it in the form of simile, due to God Almighty’s saying, “There is nothing like Him” not because of what rational consideration gives it. Based on this, the virtuous hadith scholars from the people of apparent meaning whose beliefs are safe from simile and simile, and another group of extremists have modified with these words the aspect that does not befit God Almighty in rational consideration. It has been modified to some aspect of transcendence over specificity, which in rational view is permissible for the Almighty to be characterized by it. Rather,


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