WAHABISM AND MONOTHEISM

This attitude was adopted by those who forbade interpretation and commending to Allah, the Exalted, and imposed the extrinsic meaning of expressions. They opted for material meanings.

Seemingly, they differ little, but greatly, from the commenders. The latter adopted an attitude of abstinence from interpreting the divine attributes, while 

resting upon extrinsic meanings is ruled as a declaration of opting for corporeal meanings.

For the commenders, the expression 'hand of Allah' does neither refer to ability, as the interpreters claim, nor does it refer to that material organ, as the corporalists claim. They abstain and halt before they discuss the meaning of such an expression.

Commenders, occasionally, deny and rule of unintendedness of the corporeal appearances, since they rule that meanings are commended to Allah exclusively. This has been obviously shown through An­Nawawi's previous opinions.

Corporalists rule of obligation of opting for the actual meaning, not the metaphoric, of hand. They were so daring that they denied existence of any metaphoric style in the Holy Quran as well as hadiths. Hence, they canceled metaphor of the Arabic since the Quran and hadiths pursued the exact linguistic rules and expressions of this tongue.

During discussion, they expound that Allah has a corporeal hand, but different from that possessed by humans. They do believe that Allah has organs like a hand, a leg, an eye and so on. Nevertheless, they only declare that Allah's organs are different from ordinary ones, since they do believe that Allah's look is as same as humans; therefore, he should have the same limbs and organs. Later on, this shall be proved through their words.