Is it valid to recite the noble verse, "It is only those who have knowledge among His servants that fear Allah," by raising the word of majesty "Allah" as the doer (subject) and making "the knowledgeable" as the object (of the verb), interpreting it to mean that Allah fears the knowledgeable out of reverence and glorification for them, and has this been narrated from Abu Hanifa, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, and Ibn Sirin?
This recitation is anomalous, and scholars have explained it with what was mentioned. Some of them recited in this regard Ghaylan's saying: "I am awed by you with reverence, though you have no power over me, but rather because her beloved fills her eye."
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