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The reality of Allah's hearing and seeing and how they differ from what we know [Part 2]

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Today we carry on about unveiling the reality of the understanding, about the the hearing and seeing of Allah according to the Maturidiyah.

We will start with Imām Al-Maghnīsāwī and his explanation of Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar:

„And he sees, not like our seeing – because we see shapes/forms and colours with organs and restrictions, Allah sees shapes/forms and colours with His seeing, that is His attribute in eternity, not

with an organ, and not with a restriction of time, place, direction and encounter [meaning something stopping it from Allah hearing it - like a wall].....And He hears, unlike our hearing, because our we hear with organs and restrictions, Allah, Most High hears all the sounds and

words with his eternal Hearing, not with an organ from the ears eardrums, not with restrictions of time, place, direction, distance and closeness.“

Imam Ishaq Al-Hakeem Ar-Rumī explains how Allah's hearing and seeing is completely different, how Allah is able to hear before the presence of the thing and more, in his Sharh of Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar he writes:

„And you see in the state of your sleep, with the ability of the engines of the brain, shapes and colours in your vision. You hear sounds and words, and there is no shape, nor colour, nor soundmaker nor speaker present.

After a (period) of time you see those shapes and colours, you hear those sounds and words in the state of your wakefulness, and they are in accordance to what you saw and heard (when you are) in your sleep, without increase nor decrease (of those aforementioned things).

With this (example) you marvel how Allah sees shapes and colours before they existed. How He hears sounds and words before they happen, and he is the one who shows you the shapes and colours in your sleep, without their (actual) presence,

and he makes hear the sounds and words before they occur.“

In this he makes clear that Allah's, vision and hearing is not bound by time, and in fact he can see without the shape or form or colour occuring within the time space.

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