“Either Allāh’s hands are metaphorical or they’re limbs 😡”
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Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī:
“It is said to them: Why do you conclude that the hand, if it is not a blessing, is nothing but a limb?
“It is said to them: Why do you conclude that the hand, if it is not a blessing, is nothing but a limb?
If, then, they refer us to our proof text and to our own experience of the created world, and say:
"The hand, if it is not a blessing in the proof text, is nothing but a limb."
"The hand, if it is not a blessing in the proof text, is nothing but a limb."
It is said to them:
If you make use of the proof text and draw conclusions concerning Allāh from it, then neither do we find a living creature that is not a body consisting of flesh and blood; and therefore, draw conclusions about Allāh from that.
If you make use of the proof text and draw conclusions concerning Allāh from it, then neither do we find a living creature that is not a body consisting of flesh and blood; and therefore, draw conclusions about Allāh from that.
And if you do not, you go back upon your belief and contradict your argument.
But if you assert the existence of a living thing not like the living things we know, then why do you deny that the two hands of which Allāh spoke are two hands that are not two blessings and not two limbs and not like a number of hands?
Likewise, it may be said to them: You do not find a wise ruler who is not human, but assert that the world has a wise Ruler who is not like man, and you dissent from the proof text and contradict your argument.
Therefore do not refuse to assert the existence of two hands that are not two blessings and not two limbs, because that is contrary to the proof text.”
al-Ibāna p.g 110.
al-Ibāna p.g 110.
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