Shadee Elmasry – Can God Have a Location
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The next question is, Does Allah have a location? All right?
Whereas Allah azza wa jal does, you have physical characteristics.
And again, we go back to the same idea that what is a location a
location is a creation, right? It's a thing.
Well, we have a Hadith from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, there was ALLAH and there was no thing with him. Right? So
if a location is a thing, okay? And we're told that there was
ALLAH and there was no thing with him, Therefore Allah azza wa jal
cannot have a location, he has no location. A location requires a
physicality. Now what does have a location, the direction of our
being up does not imply that the essence of ALLAH is up, okay? It's
up in the linguistic element of being superior being above us
being more worthy. Okay? It being more majestic in that element, as
smooth as smooth, like the summit, the sky, the word smooth also
means lofty in meaning. So when we hear that Allah in the summit,
right, it is lofty in meaning, not in location, because if you say
he's in location in the sky, you are therefore allowing Allah to be
inside of his creation, and his creations is all full of
accidentals and full of
requirements needs and weaknesses. Okay, and therefore you're saying
that he relies upon a weakness he relies upon creation. So we cannot
say that Allah azza wa jal has a space
nor does he have physical characteristics, okay? Everything
physical in the universe must be brought into existence and is
susceptible to change and exiting existence, right? And therefore,
Allah azza wa jal is free of this physicality and cannot have this
physicality
on the media, all
of us