الظاهر والتفويض
The Apparent Meaning and Tafwīḍ
Did the Salaf consign the meanings? Ẓāhir, taʾwīl, tafwīḍ al-maʿnā and tafwīḍ al-kayf.
- The Two Meanings of al-Ẓāhir: The Apparent Sense of the Texts of the Attributes The word ẓāhir carries two senses. In one sense it means a meaning modelled on created things, which the Salaf rejected as tashbīh. In the other it means the meaning the words convey as befits Allah, which the Salaf affirmed. Ibn Taymiyyah, al-Dhahabī and the early…
- Tafwīḍ: Did the Salaf Consign the Meaning or the Modality? The Salaf affirmed the attributes with their meanings and consigned to Allah only their modality — the “how”. Mālik's “the istiwāʾ is known, the how is unknown”, Aḥmad's “we do not know how that is”, and Abū ʿUbayd's “this is not explained” all negate knowledge of…