Refutation of Those Who Say that Allah Is Everywhere or Present in All Things [Allah’s Knowledge is All-Encompassing. He has complete, total and perfect Knowledge of what was, what is, and what will be, but He is not everywhere] The Shaykh [Al-Albaani] was questioned about what many people say, that Allah is everywhere or present in all things, so he answered: This is manifest misguidance, [in opposition] to the clear text of the Qur’an that, ‘The Most Gracious rose over the [Mighty] Throne [in a manner that suits His Majesty],’ [Taa Haa 20:5] and His Saying, the Most High, ‘Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,’ [Al-A’laa 87:1] and He described His believing servants as those who, ‘… fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded,’ [An-Nahl 16:50] [and], ‘The angels and the Spirit [Jibreel] ascend to Him in a Day the measure whereof is fifty thousand years,’ [Al-Ma’aarij 70:4] [and], ‘To Him ascend (all) the goodly words, and the righteous deeds exalt it (the goodly words i.e. the goodly words are not accepted by Allah unless and until they are followed by good deeds),’ [Faatir 35:10]. Many aayahs and hadeeths which clarify that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, does not stand in need of any of the worlds, that He is above all of His Creation, that He is not co-mixed with His Creation as these people who I pointed to say–[those who say] that Allah is everywhere, Allah is everywhere–exalted is He and high above what the oppressors say by great sublimity. In an authentic hadeeth [there occurs], ‘Allah was and nothing was with Him,’ where is the place which [He is supposedly] gathered in as these people who claim that He is everywhere say? Especially when amongst these places are those which are clean, and those which are vile and filthy, [like] bathrooms, bars, pubs, brothels and so on. How can they not declare Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, to be far above being everywhere even though He has said in more than one aayah that He rose over the [Mighty] Throne? And in an authentic hadeeth [there occurs] that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) asked a slave girl whose owner wanted to free her, ‘Where is Allah?’ She replied, ‘Above the Heavens.’ He then asked her, ‘Who am I?’ She said, ‘You are the Messenger of Allah.’ So he turned to her master and said, ‘Free her for she is a believer. The slave girl in the time of the Prophet has more fiqh than the faqihs of today, because if you were to ask many of them where Allah is, they would reply, ‘Everywhere.’ A neighbour of mine says that Allah is present in all things–these people are miskeens. That which is present is created. Allah was and there was nothing created. So after our Lord created the creation did He become part of it [bearing in mind] all the rubbish that it contains?! [Never]. Exalted is He and high above what the oppressors say by great sublimity. [Source: Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 178.]
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:15:06 +0000