Al-Qawl al-Sadid fi al-Radd ala Man Ankara Taqsim al-Tawhid - Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr - (122)

Al-Qawl al-Sadid fi al-Radd ala Man Ankara Taqsim al-TawhidAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

“... For this reason, the people of the Sunnah and the community have explicitly stated that Allah, Glorified is He, is not to be described as either outside the world or within it ...” 1.

We say to him: Name those among the people of the Sunnah and the community who explicitly stated this. Their books are available, their statements preserved, and their transmitted teachings published. Only the Jahmiyyah—those who deny the divine attributes, the followers of Jahm ibn Safwān—have explicitly stated what you mention. The people of the Sunnah and the community have repeatedly declared them to be innovators and astray.

As for the people of the Sunnah and the community, they have explicitly affirmed what is established in the Quran and Sunnah concerning Allah’s being high above His creation, His being above them, His rising over His Throne, His being in heaven, and similar matters stated in the Quran and Sunnah.

The description given by the writer, and before him by Jahm and his followers, is not one that may be applied to Allah. For anyone who says that his Lord is neither above nor below, neither to the right of the world nor to its left, neither within it nor outside it, neither connected to it nor separate from it, has described Him as nonexistent. Indeed, there is no more emphatic description of nonexistence than the description these Jahmiyyah have given of their Lord. Hence the statement made by some of the people of the Sunnah: “And one who denies the divine attributes worships nothing.”

Al-Dhahabī, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “... Whoever interprets all the attributes figuratively and construes what has been related concerning them as metaphorical language is led by such negation to strip the Lord of His attributes and make Him resemble what does not exist,

(1) I recently came across a treatise by this writer entitled Husn al-Muhājaja fī Bayān anna Allāha lā Dākhil al-‘Ālam wa-lā Khārijahu (Sound Argumentation Demonstrating That Allah Is Neither Within the World nor Outside It). In it, he affirmed the Jahmiyyah’s creed on this matter, championing and defending it. Yet he did not dare put his own name on the front of the book; instead, he used a pseudonym, giving the impression that it was someone else’s work. At the end of the book, the list of the treatise author’s works includes writings by the very author being refuted here—the author of al-Tandīd (The Denunciation).

" ... ولذلك صرح أهل السنة والجماعة بأنَّ الله سبحانه لا يوصف بأنه خارج العالم ولا داخله ... " ١. فنقول له: سمِّ لنا مَن صرح بذلك من أهل السنة والجماعة فكتبهم موجودة وأقوالهم محفوظة وآثارهم منشورة، إذ لم يصرح بما ذكرت إلا الجهمية المعطلة أتباع الجهم بن صفوان الذين تتابعت أقوال أهل السنة والجماعة في تبديعهم وتضليلهم. أمَّا أهل السنة والجماعة فقد صرحوا بما ثبت في الكتاب والسنة من علو الله على خلقه، وفوقيته، واستوائه على عرشه، وأنَّه في السماء ونحو ذلك مما ورد في الكتاب والسنة. والذي ذكره الكاتب ومن قبله جهم ومن تبعه أمرٌ لا يجوز وصف الله به، إذ من قال إنَّ ربه ليس فوق ولا تحت ولا عن يمين العالم ولا عن شماله ولا داخله ولا خارجه ولا متصلاً به ولا منفصلاً عنه فقد وصفه بالعدم بل ليس هناك وصف للعدم أبلغ من هذا الوصف الذي وصف به هؤلاء الجهمية ربهم، ومن هنا قال من قال من أهل السنة "والمعطل يعبد عدماً". قال الذهبي ﵀: " ... إنَّ من تأول سائر الصفات، وحمل ما ورد منها على مجاز الكلام، أداه ذلك السلب إلى تعطيل الرب، وأن يشابه المعدوم،

١ وقد وقفت مؤخراً على رسالة لهذا الكاتب أسماها: "حسن المحاججة في بيان أنَّ الله لا داخل العالم ولا خارجه" قرر فيها عقيدة الجهمية في هذا الباب وانتصر لها ودافع عنها، إلا أنَّه لم يجرؤ على وضع اسمه على طرَّة الكتاب بل وضع عليها اسماً مستعاراً موهماً بذلك أنَّه لغيره، وفي آخر الكتاب عند ذكر آثار مؤلف هذه الرسالة أوردوا مؤلفات المردود عليه الذي هو صاحب هذا التنديد.