Did Imam Muhammad Al-Saffarini mention in the book "Lawami' Al-Anwar Al-Bahiyyah" that there is a meaning subsisting in Allah's essence which He created in something other than Himself? And what is the interpretation of this statement, if it was mentioned?

There is nothing in Al-Saffarini's book, "Lawami' al-Anwar al-Bahiyyah," that suggests there is a meaning subsisting in Allah's essence that He created in something other than Himself. Rather, he explicitly stated that everything besides Allah and His Names and Attributes is created and originated.

Therefore, Al-Saffarini's statements and the discourse of the Imams of the Salaf do not contain the idea that the Speech of Allah Almighty is a meaning subsisting in His essence and created in something other than Himself. This is the doctrine of the Jahmiyyah and those who agreed with them.

It must be affirmed with certainty that He (Allah) speaks with ancient Speech, which is essential, existential, uncreated, unoriginated, not accidental, and does not resemble the speech of creation.

The Salaf of the Ummah and its Imams have agreed that Allah Almighty speaks with Speech that subsists in Him, and that His Speech is uncreated. They denounced the Jahmiyyah who claimed that the Speech of Allah is created, saying that He created it in something other than Himself.

Thus, the Qur'an is the uncreated Speech of Allah; from Him it began and to Him it returns. This does not imply that speech departs from the speaker and transfers to another. Rather, this is proof that Allah is the Speaker of the Qur'an and from Him it was heard, not that He created it in something other than Himself.

Among people, the speaker is one in whom the speech subsists, not one who originates it in another. Just as the One Who Wills, the Merciful, the Hearing, the Seeing, the Knowing, and the Powerful are those in whom Will, Mercy, Hearing, Sight, Knowledge, and Power subsist, not one who originates these in another.

Many factions of the People of Kalam, the masters of ancient philosophy, and the majority of the Imams of Hadith, and this is what they conveyed from the Salaf, and the Imams from the Companions, the Tabi'in, and their successors up to Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Bukhari, and their likes, and upon this the speech of the Salaf indicates.