Bismillah
as salam alykom
Well let me pop in again and try to give my humble understanding of this Anthropomorphism which Hadji may Allah Reward him explained this english term that I ve never heard before. BUt certainly I m aware of this issue.
This issue involved Allah's Names and Attributes.
Matter of fact, this is a serious issue Allah's Names and Attributes are there for us to benefit of, to live thru, to know who Allah Is, Who our Creator is.
BTW, it is human beings who are trying to adopt the manners inherint in those names and not visa versa. What does this mean??
In a hadeeth (forgive me I m tryping at 11.27 pm will not look for the exact text now), the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam say what means that Allah actually instilled on earth only 1% of His Mercy and Kept the 99% to Himself. Through this 1% the she doneky raises up her foot out of concern not to step on her child. Thus, we derived the mercy, all the mercy on earth from Allah. The All Pardon, we are supposed always to remember if Allah Is the All Pardon, thus we must think always to pardon. I know you must be saying OOO she does not even know what she is talking about. Hold on..
Come to things like Allah Descends to the lower sky during the last third of the night. Yes He Does, so long as He Said He Does then He does. How??? is the issue. We have no idea since Allah There is nothing like Him. But He does. The manner, methodology, is unknown to us. Exactly as when people asked Mussa salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam how did you hear Allah when He Spoke to you, Mussa salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam said with my whole body. The rules are not applicable with Allah. But so long as Allah Say in Quran "Thums istawa a`la Arsh" we must realise that He did. How? we have no idea. Isnt Arsh a human related item?? but Allah's A`rsh is certainly different. Again we have no idea what it is? how it is carried by angles??? how large it is?? how to angles circle around it? No idea. But we must believe it is there, because it is in Quran. Now Isnt it mentioned in Quran that "The Jews say: "Allah's Hand is tied up!" Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for what they uttered. Nay, both His Hands are widely outstretched"5:64. Does this mean that Allah Has hands like ours, no way.
But Allah Brings things in a language that we understand. Again, in terms of Allah's Names and Attributes, actually we adopt them, not the other way around. For example, Allah Is Al Qayoum. One Who assumes, in charge of, Takes over, Carries on... we do the same of course, but Allah is Al Qayoum of skies and earth. And that is different. we have no idea how Allah Runs and Manages Skies and earth. But Allah Does and because Allah Does He does not sleep not for a wink.
May Allah Accept, whatever is correct is from Allah and whatever is wrong is from myself and shaytan..