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