Regarding Ahlul Bid'ah's Deviant statement concerning the Names, Attributes of Allaah

[Maher.ibn.Ahmad.Attiyeh]

Bismillaah Al-Hamdulillaah wa salatu wa salaamu 'ala rasulullaah Amma ba'd So we - Ahlus-Sunnah - make tafweed only of the Kayfeeyah (the howness). The Ash'aria make tafweed of the meanings and the words. ________________________________________________ Abu Uwais relayed from Shaikh al-'Uthaimeen's sharh of Al-Aqeedatul Waasitiyah of Ibn Taymeeyah (rahimahumullaah): Also they (Ahlul Bid'ah: Ash'arees, etc...) claim they are performing TanzeeH - not ascribing deficiency to Allaah. Some from Ahlul Bid'ah who go astray regarding the Names and Attributes had the intent of TanzeeH, but this includes the sick premise that when Allaah described Himself in His Book and in the Sunnah of the Messenger (salallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) that He did not intend TanzeeH, to remove Himself above it! [Aoodhubillaah!] So they felt they had to come up (invent) meanings that would give that. That's how they fell into wrong. They ran from something - resembling (TashbeeH) - and fell into something worse than it! So we - Ahlus-Sunnah - make tafweed only of the Kayfeeyah (the howness). The Ash'aria make tafweed of the meanings and the words. Allaah forbade us from kayfeeyah: ...And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge. (Ta-Ha, ayah 110) Say (O Muhammad): "(But) the things that my Lord has indeed forbidden are Al-Fawaahish whether committed openly or secretly, sins (of all kinds), unrighteous oppression, joining partners (in worship) with Allaah for which He has given no authority, and saying things about Allaah of which you have no knowledge." (Al-A'raf, ayah 33) And follow not (O man i.e., say not, or do not or witness not, etc.) that of which you have no knowledge (e.g. one's saying: "I have seen," while in fact he has not seen, or "I have heard," while he has not heard). Verily! The hearing, and the sight, and the heart, of each of those you will be questioned (by Allaah). (Al-Isra`, ayah 36) Kayfeeyah can be known by: 1- Witnessing it 2- Witnessing something just like it, or similar, or equal to it 3- A truthful informer who informs you about it (its howness) [Shaikh al-'Uthaimeen used the example of a 1988 Datsun, 2000 model.] So we believe there is a how, but we don't know (the howness, the kayfeeyah).