Shadee Elmasry – Is Allah in the Sky Imam Nawawi on Hadith of the Slave Girl

Today we're going to discuss a question of the Hadith of the Jedi

that comes up often. Now, let me also tell you this, many people

say, Oh, don't bring this up to the people, they're going to be

confused. Oh, we should only just talk about relevant things. It's

not true, but it is relevant because people do look at this and

talk about it. People do ask questions about this. And as long

as we put it in a context that this is the HD head, it's the

attempt of scholars to understand the speech of the Prophet peace be

upon him. And with the context of not arguing, I have no interest in

arguing with effigies and somebody's I view them as our

brothers. They have their own itchy head. I know it's silent.

Let's look at what our ultimate said about this. We read from Imam

nawawi fi Sharh sahih Hadith Algeria. If you asked me Imam no

is the first go to source for anything closet or yard is his

source but not everyone knows called the Al but everyone knows

him know what we are Imam unknown. Fisher he Hadith Algeria, in his

commentary on so hate Muslim? What is the Hadith of the geria a

servant girl was brought to the Prophet she was brought to the

Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and they were asking do we free

her? Or is she a Muslim or not? Because she was in Butte and blind

and some said blind only good and Allah knows best. We're gonna see

as different different narrations he says heaven Hadith min a hadith

OC fat. This is a Hadith from the Hadith related to the attributes

of Allah. And it has two meth hubs as we have spoke about many times

in the book of Imen One method is to believe in it without talking

about it. This is I'm not gonna go to humbly because I'm not humbly

but from what I've seen of the humble ease, this is their way so

just leave it as is and you have the right to do so. And if you're

a common Muslim guy and listen I don't I don't want to get involved

in this these these questions Hey, this is a great outlet just say

coalescers Whatever Alana is profit meant it to be good mount

Attica G, but you also have to believe you can't just let it go.

You also have to negate what Allah negated for himself, that Allah

LASIK and the sheikh, that there is none like unto him What 10 Z

who fancy mats and mclucas and you must say that he is transcendent

of from all the descriptions of created beings, okay, so to be

created, has certain descriptions to it. And you can say in general,

that Allah is transcendent beyond all such descriptions. That's it,

you don't have to specify general that's

the other opinion, is to make it weak to interpret it. And he says

about them with the shabby hats, that their meanings not known

except to Allah and those who are firmly established in knowledge.

And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge, say, no one knows

its meaning but Allah, that's the Listen, I don't know what it means

I'm going to stop there are only Allah knows. But the second says,

that Allah knows those firmly grounded in knowledge, no. And

they admit that they recognize that their interpretation of it is

speculative, and only absolute certainty is for Allah. So it's

not, it doesn't negate when we say only Allah knows. Yes, only Allah

knows with certainty. So if you ask any, what's the kalam when he

makes it when he says, This is what we know. And Allah knows

best. Because we are making HT head, we're using scholarly effort

to try to understand what Allah means here. And we believe this is

what he means. But we must ultimately return the meaning to

Allah. Now, we don't do that for things that are absolutely

certain. When we're absolutely certain about something you don't

say and Allah knows best. You can say God is one. Muhammad is his

prophet, and Allah knows best. No, you have to be certain about that.

Because that's clear and explicit in our religion. All right, we're

allowed to have speculative knowledge we're allowed to

speculate on meanings of things, but speculation has to be with

evidence. We have to understand that that is an effort to

understand the truth, not claim of absolute knowledge, without any

possibility go wrong. So he says here, those who interpreted this

hadith said it this is a test for her does she hold that the one,

the creator, the doer of all things? This is also a hadith

proves that. No, we held that Allah is the only DOER of all

things is Allah. And he is the one who if you pray to Him, you face

the heavens because the fibula of dua, is the heavens. Why do we

point up for Allah and look up? Same reason we pray to the Kaaba.

We're not praying to the cab, and we're not holding that Allah's

essences in the sky. We hold that that's the Qibla of dua, if we

held otherwise, that means the South American is pointing down

and I'm pointing up and if the essence of ALLAH is there, then

that means the s

Since of Allah is has the earth inside of it, right as all around

us but there are things like that doesn't make any that's not

acceptable or contradicts much of what we have other explicit texts.

So this that's the first meaning camera el sol Musa lista Kabbalah

Acaba, remember now he said the exact same thing I just said. He

said in the same way that the one who faces the Kaaba, he prays, he

faces the Kaaba. If you make up, you face up, you put your hands

up, okay? You don't put your hands to the side to the left down, you

face up and you look up and you the shahada is this. So? Is she

from the ones who praise facing like this? Or is her God? An idol

on the earth such that where is your God? Oh, he's right there in

that house. He's there. He's an idol over there, or he's an idol

over there. Because where were the idols physically on Earth? That's

what he met me. No, he's saying, where's your DUA? Where is your

Creator? Right, the one that you worship, and point up and point

upwards and make dua facing the sky or idols here on the earth. So

here, she answers the question, she says FISMA. So therefore, that

made it clear that she's a mono theist. She doesn't worship idols.

And of course, as I told you know, he always relies on Claudia Yachty

always cites Claudia, and so much so he just says caught off guard

he called the Ayyad says there is no difference between the Muslims

forever from the beginning of time. They're jurists. They're

Hadith scholars, they're theologians, they're thinkers,

they're followers, that all of the mentions of Allah being in the sky

like they are not of the literal versus the verses that you may

take literally bet in which a Wella in the Jamia him, rather

interpret. So Allah has told us in suits at Emraan, that some verses

are from the mother's sources of the book, that means they are as

they are, and others are Morticia. They they sound like something

that they do not mean the immediate meaning of one or the

other interpretations, just to give you a summary is that when

she she was mute, so she only did this right and it's not pointing

up. It's the shahada, Leila Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, that's one

of the meanings. So whether she was pointing up, that means you

have completed drop.

Or she was doing this, meaning the symbol of the shahada, it brings

the same results. And on top of that, it's not condemned to source

evidence because there's so many different narrations of what

actually happened. Okay. Now, why are we saying this? I have to

couch this and I'll say it a million times. We're not here to

pick a fight with the

high Nebula, nor are we arguing you have your opinion. And almost

done. You can have it and we honor the humbly school and the sad

opinion

that negates touch seem and location for Allah subhanaw taala.

And there are many humbly books that explicitly state that you