Is Allah in a Direction? What Does Ahl al-Sunnah Believe? | Shaykh Dr. Salih al-Sindi

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📌 In this beneficial explanation, Dr. Salih al-Sindi discusses an important issue concerning the Names and Attributes of Allah: Do we affirm that Allah is in a “direction,” or do we deny direction for Allah? 📝 The Shaykh explains that the word “direction” (jihah) is an ambiguous and innovated term that is neither affirmed nor denied absolutely. Instead, its intended meaning must first be clarified. ❌ If by “direction” a person means that Allah is contained within a created place, surrounded by His creation, beneath something, or adjacent to something from His creation, then this meaning is false. Allah is far above and exalted beyond all of this. ✅ However, if what is intended is absolute highness, meaning that Allah is above everything and everything is beneath Him, then this meaning is true and established by the Quran, Sunnah, reason, and fitrah. 📖 Allah says: “They fear their Lord above them.” [Surah al-Nahl 16:50] 📖 And Allah says: “Do you feel secure that He, Who is over the heaven...” [Surah al-Mulk 67:16] 💡 The Shaykh also explains the meaning of Allah being “in the heaven,” Allah’s attribute of al-Uluw (Highness), and al-Fawqiyyah (being above). 📚 The correct methodology is to use the wording found in the Quran and Sunnah when speaking about Allah and His Attributes and to avoid ambiguous, innovated terminology. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 SOURCE: هل نثبت (الجهة) لله عزوحل أو ننفيها؟ | أ.د. صالح سندي. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmp8MRthhZE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Allah #Quran #Muslim #Sunnah #Hadith #Islamic #IslamicReminder #IslamicKnowledge #IslamicLecture #IslamicVideo #IslamicContent #IslamicShorts #IslamicEducation #IslamicStudies #Aqeedah #Aqidah #Tawheed #Tawhid #Iman #Deen #Salafi #Salafiyyah #AhlusSunnah #QuranAndSunnah #IslamicTeachings #IslamicScholar #NamesOfAllah #AttributesOfAllah #WhereIsAllah