He Will Call Them With a Voice

On Allāh’s  Kalām1

Imām al-Qurtubī

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Section: The saying in the hadīth:“He will call them with a voice” is used by those who believe in [ Allāh’s speech being composed of ] letters and sounds Exalted is He above what the anthropomorphists and unbelievers say! In reality, Allāh’s call is the call through some of the Archangels nigh unto Him,by Allāh’s permission and His order.

Similar to this is what is accepted and not criticized in speech,that one should say,‘the Prince called and I received a call from the prince’just as Allāh, the Exalted,said: “Pharaoh called out his people ”.What is mean there is that the caller called upon his order and he issued a call with his permission. Pharaoh called out his people

And it is also,as it is said ‘the prince killed so and so and struck so and so’and this doesn’t mean that he was the doer of the action but it means that he gave the command for the action.

And it has been sited in authentic hadīth that the Angels will call out in front of all of the creation and address the people of piety and uprightness saying:‘Indeed, so and so the son of so and so...’;as has proceeded.

This is similar to what is mentioned in the hadīth of descent,that served as an explanation of the report of al Nasā’i from Abu Hurayrah ra and Abu Sa’īd ra who said that Prophet Muhammad saw said that Allāh,all Mighty and Splendid,waits until the first half of night has passed then He orders a caller to say:‘Is there any prayer that that he may be responded to? Is there anyone asking for forgiveness that he maybe forgiven? Is there any mendicant that he may begiven?’[This hadīth has been ] authenticated by Abū Muhammad‘Abd al-Haqq.

And so every hadīth that makes mention of [Allāh’s] voice or call,then this is its interpretation,that [the mention of ]the adjunct has been omitted.The proof for this is the pre eternality of the speech of Allāh,the Exalted,as has been mentioned in the book Al Diyanāt.

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1Excerpted from al Tadhkira fī ahwāl al mawta wa umūr al ākhira,The Reminder of the Conditions of the Dead and Matters of the  Hereafter (p.232233);
see:http://alkahtane.com/topics/ara/altathkera%20qurtoby%20book.htm
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So, if some fool says:

“There is no evidence of interpreting the saying in the way you did,as it mentions‘I amThe Requiter (Al Dayyān)’,and this is said truthfully and honestly by none except Allāh Almighty”,

then it is said to him: if the angel said this on behalf of Allāh and announced it for Allāh,then the matter [i.e.the statement ] returns to Allāh, rabbul‘alamīn.

And the proof for this is the fact that when anyone of us reads the Qur’ānic verse “ Verily I am Allāh ”2 then this does not refer to the reader,but the reader is in reality alluding mentioning thewords of Allāh and alluding to it with his own voice.And this matter is quite obvious.

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2  [20:14]