Cautions for Tawheed, the basis of Iman
1. Distortion
1. Distortion
- The Jahmiy (followers of the deviations of Al-Jahm ibn Safwan) negate Allah's statement that He "sat above the throne" by adding an extra letter to the word in the Qur'an. [Istawaa 'alaa al-'arsh] innovated to [Istawlaa 'alaa al-'arsh]
- There have been innovators who changed the case of a noun in the Qur'an in an effort to negate Allah's attribute of speech.
- Others have distorted meanings of Allah's attributes without actually changing the words. Examples include those who said that Allah's anger means His intention to punish, His mercy means his intention to have mercy, His hand is His generosity or His power, etc.
- There is also distortion when Allah's attributes have been likened to those of humans or other creation - similar to that of "sitting" or holding literal meaning to terminology like the phrase, "it is in Allah's hands", etc.
- Negation of the Perfection of Allah (swt) through the negation of His names and attributes (Asma' ul-Husna was-Sifat).
- Negation through negation/neglect of worship & obedience to Him, or the association of others with Him in acts of worship (shirk).
- Negation of the relationship of the creation to its Creator (like the negation of the philosophers who claimed that this physical universe has no beginning, and that it has always and will always work according to its own internal rules. They turn Allah into an essence with no attributes, which is impossible).
- At-Takyeef means attempts to ascribe a detailed understanding of the exact nature of the various attributes with which Allah has described Himself. Just use the words and understanding given in the Qur'an and not your own philosophies as to what Allah is.
- At-Tamtheel means to make a direct comparison or analogy between one of Allah's attributes and a human attribute having the same name, such as the comparison of Isa (Jesus) by the Christians to Allah Most High, or that of Uzair by the Jews or that of the idols by the polytheists to Allah Most High. Likewise the Mushabbiha among the Muslims who compare Allah with His creation by saying that He has a face like our faces, hands like our hands, hearing and sight like ours, etc.
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