Imam Bayhaqi on Sifaat; Salafis their Cognitive Dissonance

Imam al-Bayhaqi writes in al-I'tiqād, after relaying the hadith of Nuzūl: This is an authentic narration, transmitted by a group of the Sahaba from the Prophet. The scholars of Hadith are divided into two camps regarding such Hadiths and Quran verses. (None of the Sahaba or Tabi'een spoke about the ta'weel of these.) A) There…

A comprehensive post on Ru’yah | Ash’ari perspective

Discussed in this post are the following queries:- What does Ru'yah mean linguistically?- How can Allah be seen if He's not in a direction?- What about the Hadith where the vision of Allah is mentioned?- What does Ru'yah exactly entail?This post is a loose translation of Shaykh Saeed Foudah's al-Sharh al-Kabeer. From a lexical perspective,…