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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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The negation of attributes and the doctrine of privations.

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When the Mu'attilah (deniers of attributes) negated the attributes of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic,

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and found themselves in need of defining and clarifying their object of worship,

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they resorted to describing Him, Glorified is He, through negation.

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They say:

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"He is neither inside the world nor outside of it,"

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"neither a substance nor an accident,"

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"neither existent nor non-existent,"

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"neither capable nor incapable,"

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and so on.

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Thus, they stripped their object of worship of every attribute and its opposite.

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They did this, according to their claims, to flee from anthropomorphism and multiplicity.

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It is for this reason that their creed is described as the doctrine of privations,

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because it strips every description and its opposite from Allah, the Almighty and Majestic.

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By Allah, this is a sign of their misguidance and the foolishness of their intellects.

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It is refuted from two perspectives.

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First, reason forbids the negation of two contradictories at the same time.

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For two contradictories cannot coexist,

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nor can they both be absent at the same time, ever.

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Rather, one must necessarily exist while the other is absent.

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Examples include existence and non-existence, or night and day.

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This is unlike two contraries, which cannot coexist,

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but may both be absent.

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For instance, whiteness and blackness.

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A thing cannot be white and black at the same time;

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rather, it is either one of them exclusively,

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or it is neither white nor black,

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but rather another color, such as red.

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Second, pure negation is absolute non-existence.

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This is a form of disparagement and desecration, not perfection and glorification.

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You have likened your object of worship to that which is non-existent and has no reality.

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This is sufficient as a manifest error and misguidance.