WAHABISM AND MONOTHEISM

Bin Baz's Al­Fetawi, part 4 page 368 verdict 2331: Q1. Abu Hureira: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Allah created Adam on his look; sixty arms long." Is this authentic?

A. The actual text of the hadith is, "… Allah created Adam on his look. His length was sixty arms. He, then, asked him to go and greet that group of lying angels and listen to their replication. 'They will answer you with a statement that should be taken, by you and your progeny, as the formal greeting,' added the Lord. Adam went and addressed, 'Peace be upon you.' 'Peace and God's mercy be upon you,' they replied. Hence, everyone should be of sixty yards long before they enter the Paradise. From Adam and on, creatures have been reduced in length." Ahmed, Al­Bukhari and Muslim record this hadith. It is an authentic hadith with a familiar context. Two meanings are cited for this hadith. First, Allah did not create Adam tiny like babies, and gradually, he attained the sixty yard length. Adam had his final look, which is sixty yards long, from the first moment of his life. Second, 'his' in 'his look' is belonged to Allah. This fact is evidenced by another authentic hadith saying, "Adam was created on the look of the Beneficent God." This, however, does not refer to anthropomorphism, since Allah opted for names and attributes of His creatures without referring to anthropomorphism. The same is said about the look involved in the hadith. In other words, ascribing the look to Allah does not necessarily lead to ruling of anthropomorphism, since union in name and in total meaning does not abide anthropomorphism of each, for God's saying, (Nothing like the likeness of Him, and he is the Hearing, the Seeing.)

Bin Baz's previous verdict leads directly to assuring that Adam was created on the look of Allah, and Allah enjoys the same look of Adam. He also claims this is in no means regarded as anthropomorphism!!

Anyone can benefit this verdict by claiming that one has the same look of Adam, and Adam has the same look of one; yet, they do not look like each other!! Furthermore, a criminal can be saved by the same verdict. It is possible to claim that the picture was the same of that criminal, but it does not look like him!!

The principal problem of Wahabists is that they have to contort meanings of Arabic idioms. They are confined between two matters; either to contort meanings of Arabic terminology, or to deform their sect totally. What a miserable sect is that which shall be deformed if meanings are correct, and shall be stabilized if meanings are contorted!