Allah Most High says: "He who is hostile to a friendof Mine I declare
war against. My slave approaches Me with nothing more beloved toMe
than what I have made obligatory upon him, and My slave keeps drawing
nearer to Me with voluntary works until I love him. And when I love
him, I am hishearing with which he hears, his sight with which he
sees, his hand with which he seizes, and his foot with which he walks.
If he asks me, I will surely give to him, and if he seeks refuge inMe,
I will surely protect him" (Fath al-Bari, 11.34041, hadith 6502); This
hadith was related by Imam Bukhari, Ahmadibn Hanbal, al-Bayhaqi, and
others with multiplecontiguous chains of transmission, and is sahih.
The part that I need explaining in, or rather getting confused in is,
"I am his hearing with which he hears, his sightwith which he sees,
his hand with which he seizes, and his foot with which he walks."
Praise be to Allaah.
The meaning of this partof the hadeeth is that when the believing
slavestrives to draw closer to Allaah by doing obligatory acts of
worship, then naafil acts, Allaah will bring him closer to Him, and
will raise him from the level of eemaan (faith, belief) to the level
of ihsaan, so he will start toworship Allaah as if he can see Him, and
his heart will be filled with knowledge of his Lord, love and awe for
Him, fear of Him, and glorification and veneration of Him. Whenhis
heart is filled in this manner, any attachment to anything other than
Allaah will disappear, and the person will not longer be attached to
any of his whims or desires, and he will haveno wish for anything
except that which his Lord and Master wants. At that point the person
will not speak except to remember Allaah, he willnot move except to
obeyHis command. So when he speaks, he speaks for the sake of Allaah;
when he hears he hears for thesake of Allaah; when he looks, he looks
for the sake of Allaah; i.e., he acts with the help and guidance of
Allaah and for the sake of Allaah in these matters. So he onlylistens
to that which Allaah loves; he only looks at that with which Allaah is
pleased; he onlystrikes with his hands and walks with his feet for
purposes with which his Lord and Master is pleased. It does not mean
that Allaah is his hearing and his sight, and Allaah is his hand and
his foot. Exalted be Allaah above that, for Allaah is above the Throne
and He is Exalted above all His creation. Rather what is meant is that
He guides him with regard to his hearing, seeing, walking and
striking. Hence it was narrated in another version that Allaah says:
"In Me he hears, in Me hesees, in Me he strikes and in Me he walks,"
meaning that Allaah guides him in his actions, words, hearing and
seeing. This is what it means according to Ahl al-Sunnah
wa'l-Jamaa'ah. At the same time Allaah answers his prayers, so ifhe
asks Him, He will give;if he seeks His help, He will help him; if he
seeks refuge with Him, He will grant him refuge.
Adapted from Jaami' al-'Uloom wa'l-Hukam, 2/347; Fataawa Noor
'ala'l-Darb, tape 10, by Shaykh Ibn Baaz, may Allaah have mercy on
him.
Whoever suggests a meaning other than this is wrong and is
transgressing the limits and showing disrespect towards Allaah, and he
isgoing against the Arabs' own understanding of their language and
whatthey understand by such words. Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen said in
Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 1/145 9: You see that Allaah has mentioned one who
worships and One Who is worshipped, one who draws close and the One to
Whom hedraws close, one who loves and the One Who isloved, one who
asks andOne Who is asked, One Who gives and one to whom it is given,
one who seeks refuge and One Whose refuge is sought. The hadeeth
refers to two who are distinct from one another, one of whom isnot the
other. If that is the case, than the apparent meaning of the words "I
am his hearing, his sight, his hand and his foot" cannot be that the
Creator is a part or an attribute of the created being. Exalted be
Allaah far above that. Rather the apparent and true meaning is that
Allaah guides this slave with regard to his hearing, sight and
striking, so he hears purely for the sakeof Allaah, by the help of
Allaah, following the commands of Allaah. Thesame applies to his
seeing, his striking and his walking.
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