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you do. {22} And that assumption you made about your Lord has brought you to ruin, so you have become among the losers. {23}’” [Fussilat 22–23]
But discussing the vastness of His hearing and sight—glorified and exalted is He—is no different from discussing the vastness of His knowledge and power. What he has mentioned amounts only to saying that His hearing and sight are unlike ours. No rational person disputes that such a thing exists, nor is it denied by sense perception, reason, or imagination. Indeed, the existence of that which has no counterpart in creation
تَعْمَلُونَ
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وَذَلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ الَّذِي ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَاكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم مِّنْ الْخَاسِرِينَ
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[فصلت ٢٢ ̧٢٣]
لكن الكلام في سعة سمعه وبصره سبحانه وتعالى كالكلام في سعة علمه وقدرته سواء وليس فيما ذكره إلا أن ذلك ليس مثل سمعنا وبصرنا وثبوت مثل هذا مما لاينازع فيه عاقل ولا ينفيه حس ولا عقل ولا تخيل بل ثبوت مالا نظير له في الخلق