"We believe there is a Face for Allah
Almighty," says our Grandshaykh, "But, a description of His Face is
not imagination. You may imagine one face, and he, another, and so on. If yours
is right, what about ours? We cannot describe all the attributes of Allah
Almighty, we just know that He has them."
"O Nazim Effendi," says our Grandshaykh,
"I was dreaming today of the eyes of my Lord! I cannot describe the beauty
of his eyes! They are not like anything."
[Nazim, Mercy Oceans, pp. 11 and 44, 1980]
These words of Kabbani’s teacher, considered by his
followers to have been the Sultan of the Awliya, affirm in clear, unequivocal
terms, both a Face and Eyes for Allaah (whilst obviously taking into account
that these Attributes in no way resemble the creation).
Or is ad-Daghestani’s affirmation of these
Attributes also error and misguidance according to the criterion of Kabbani and
al-Zahawi?
Abul-Hasan al-Ash’aree said:
"And He has two Eyes without any mention of
how."
(al-Ash’aree, Al-Ibaanah ‘an Usool
ad-Diyaanah, p. 9 and Maqaalaat p.290)
Ibn Hajar also writes in Fath al-Baaree (13/373) that
al-Bayhaqee mentions a witness for the hadeeth of Aboo Hurairah (i.e. the
hadeeth reported by Aboo Dawood in his Sunan that the Prophet sallallahu
‘alayhi wa sallam recited Soorah an-Nisaa Verse 58 and read upto
"Hearing Seeing" and placed his thumb on his ear and the one next to
it upon his eyes) from the hadeeth of ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Aamir: ‘I
heard the Messenger of Allaah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam say upon the
minbar: "Our Lord certainly hears and sees" and he pointed to his two
eyes.’ (Ibn Hajar declared its chain of transmission to be hasan).
The preceding quote from ad-Daghestani is an indication
that Kabbani is neither upon the way of his spiritual master nor Abul-Hasan
al-Ash’aree in affirming the Attributes since they both affirm Eyes for
Allaah, an affirmation which Kabbani takes great offence at - refer to Kabbani,
p. 197.