Why Do Some Muslims Deny Where Allah is?

[DojaKhat]

Most people don’t question these basics but also the op in the original is probably one of those philosophy islamic bros. It corrupts your islam and can lead you to innnovation. very dangerous

The benefits of philosophy far outweigh the cons, though, it's a matter of how you use it. If one uses it in an effort to debunk Islam, or a Muslim unknowingly contradicts the diin then there's a problem.

All of these Dawah attempts Muslims online make are based on philosophical reasoning, anyway, since non-Muslims aren't gonna care about what is commanded of us in the Quran + authentic Hadiith.

 

[Angelina]

I've never questioned where Allah is, I've always believed he was above the heavens. With regards to Ashaari vs Athari from looking into Islamic history, at one point the majority of the Ummah were Asha'ri and another time the majority were Athari. This debate isn't new. In the medieval classical period, they would debate each other and write fatwas against each other.

 

[Garaad Awal]

Only morons think that Allah is sitting above a throne like a pagan God. Allah utilizes metaphors many times in the Qur’an.

Do you also take verses like this literally?

قال الله عزواجل في الصورة قٓ

و نحن أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ

 

[Garaad Awal]

I've never questioned where Allah is, I've always believed he was above the heavens. With regards to Ashaari vs Athari from looking into Islamic history, at one point the majority of the Ummah were Asha'ri and another time the majority were Athari. This debate isn't new. In the medieval classical period, they would debate each other and write fatwas against each other.

Majority of Ahlul Sunnah are Ashari & Maturidi. Athari were always a tiny minority of the ummah

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

Majority of Ahlul Sunnah are Ashari & Maturidi. Athari were always a tiny minority of the ummah

Garaad making points fair enough dude

Remember also there is a difference between the actual Atharis of Ahlus Sunnah (the Hanbalis with the position of tafweed) and the modern fake ones who pretend that anthropomorphism is tafweed!

 

[Omar del Sur]

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

Respectfully he is not a scholar he has said so himself

 

[Omar del Sur]

Garaad making points fair enough dude

Remember also there is a difference between the actual Atharis of Ahlus Sunnah (the Hanbalis with the position of tafweed) and the modern fake ones who pretend that anthropomorphism is tafweed!

I would like to ask you please not to spread fake news in this section. Athari aqeedah, aqeedah of salaf is not merely aqeedah of Imam Hanbal. It is the aqeedah of the salaf

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

I would like to ask you please not to spread fake news in this section. Athari aqeedah, aqeedah of salaf is not merely aqeedah of Imam Hanbal. It is the aqeedah of the salaf

If you read what I said you shouldn't have an issue.

The majority schools of Ahlus Sunnah in aqeedah are that of Imam Ash'ari and Imam Maturidi.

They are all Ahlus Sunnah minus modern fake claimants

 

[Omar del Sur]

If you read what I said you shouldn't have an issue.

The majority schools of Ahlus Sunnah in aqeedah are that of Imam Ash'ari and Imam Maturidi.

They are all Ahlus Sunnah minus modern fake claimants

please stop spreading fake news. how can you claim asharis are ahlus sunnah? yes, they are ahlus sunnah in the sense they're not shia (assuming we class asharis as Muslims... I believe some are and some go to the extreme that they commit kufr) but they are not ahlus sunnah in that they're on the right way.

 

[Omar del Sur]

I take my religion from the medieval Shafi'i jurists who were all Ash'ari

We have it here from the horse's mouth. "I take my religion from the medieval Shafi'i jurists who were all Ash'ari".

Why don't you Ash'aris take your religion from the early Shafi'i scholars?

@Samaale55 @daljirkadahsoon I gave you the aqeedah according to Al-Muzanī. Al-Muzanī was the student of Imam Shafi'i.

You will follow Imam Shafi'i in fiqh but not aqeedah?

 

[Kingofthearabs]

Majority of Ahlul Sunnah are Ashari & Maturidi. Athari were always a tiny minority of the ummah

keep coping ashari

 

[Omar del Sur]

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

Sorry Omar but we will not change our religion now after more than a 1000 years

 

[Omar del Sur]

Sorry Omar but we will not change our religion now after more than a 1000 years

I think it's very appropriate that you say after 1,000 rather than 1,400.

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

I think it's very appropriate that you say after 1,000 rather than 1,400.

A mistake but the point is our aqeedah wasn't invented in Najd like 200 years ago ok.

 

[Suldaaanka]

Majority of Ahlul Sunnah are Ashari & Maturidi. Athari were always a tiny minority of the ummah

Most Muslims do not even know what Ash’ari and Maturidi are, so applying the majority argument here is disingenuous.

 

[Suldaaanka]

Ask the average layman where Allāh is and he/she will point up, they are naturally Athāri inclined whether you like it or not.

 

[Omar del Sur]

A mistake but the point is our aqeedah wasn't invented in Najd like 200 years ago ok.

I quoted to you from a student of Imam Shafi'i. He clearly held that Allah is above His Throne. Quote to me from a student of Imam Shafi'i who is Ash'ari- you can't.

Imam Shafi'i and his students were Wahhabis?

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

I quoted to you from a student of Imam Shafi'i. He clearly held that Allah is above His Throne. Quote to me from a student of Imam Shafi'i who is Ash'ari- you can't.

Imam Shafi'i and his students were Wahhabis?

The people you have cited mistranslate and misquote I will not rely on their word. We have the pure and correct manuscripts.

The simple proof for what I said is the well known scandal where the Salafi publisher Darusallam committed blasphemy by removing hadith they didn't like from the prints of the Sahih Sitta collections.

Not much to debate man this is an open and shut case. We have maintained the trust. The followers of Ibn Abdulwahab have no chain and are innovators.