IslamQA
This website is under review. Do not rely on it for final rulings.
Question
Is it permissible to attribute thought to Allah, such as saying “Be as Allah thinks you are, or as Allah thinks well of you”?
Answer
Praise be to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah:
I put this question to our shaykh, ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan al-Barraak (may Allah preserve him), and he replied: This expression is false and reprehensible. It is not permissible to attribute thought to Allah or to say that Allah thinks such and such, or Allah thinks well of So-and-so, and the like. End quote.
And Allah knows best.
More fatwas from our library on the same topic