Is the Preserved Tablet (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz) beneath the Throne or above it, especially given the Hadith: "Indeed, Allah wrote a book before He created creation: 'My mercy has preceded My wrath.' It is written with Him above the Throne"?
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The prophetic hadiths state that Allah Almighty has written a scripture with Him, above His Throne: "Indeed, My Mercy has preceded My Wrath." The texts do not explicitly define the nature of this scripture, whether it is the Preserved Tablet (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz) or another book, even though Imam Al-Bukhari narrated the in the chapter "Nay, but it is a glorious Qur'an, in a Preserved Tablet," which suggests that the Preserved Tablet is above the Throne. The important thing is to believe in the existence of this scripture as mentioned in authentic hadiths, and not to delve into the details of the unseen except within the limits of what is stated in the text, and to submit to what the sacred texts have conveyed.
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