You have realised by your imaginations...
You have realised by your imaginations, Al-Sind, and Al-Hind, and the countries which you have not entered into nor seen with your vision, and the imaginations of the heart cannot comprehend Him -azwj , so how could the visions of the eyes?’ [27] Forbiddance from (describing Allah -azwj ) with the body and the image مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ قَالَ وَصَفْتُ لِأَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ ( عليه السلام ) قَوْلَ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ الْجَوَالِيقِيِّ وَ حَكَيْتُ لَهُ قَوْلَ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ أَنَّهُ جِسْمٌ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَا يُشْبِهُهُ شَيْءٌ أَيُّ فُحْشٍ أَوْ خَناً أَعْظَمُ مِنْ قَوْلِ مَنْ يَصِفُ خَالِقَ الْأَشْيَاءِ بِجِسْمٍ أَوْ صُورَةٍ أَوْ بِخِلْقَةٍ أَوْ بِتَحْدِيدٍ وَ أَعْضَاءٍ تَعَالَى اللَّهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ عُلُوّاً كَبِيراً .
Muhammad Bin Abu Abdullah, from the one who mentioned it, from Ali Bin Al Abbas, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Muhammad Bin Hakeym who said, ‘I described to Abu Ibrahim -asws (7 th Imam -asws ), the words of Hisham Bin Salim Al-Jawaliqy, and related to him -asws the word of Hisham Bin Al-Hakam that He -azwj is a body’. So he -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj the Exalted cannot be resembled by anything.
What can be a greater obscenity or betrayal than the words of the one who describes the Creator of the things as being with a body, or an image, or by a creature, or a limitation, or body parts? Exalted is Allah -azwj from that, Loftier, Greater’.
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