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Is it permissible to describe someone who exposes a mistake or a violation of Sharia, such as harassment, as "an eye among the eyes of Allah," and is this considered exaggeration, and what does this expression mean?

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It is not permissible to believe that the Divine Essence or His attributes reside in created beings. The phrase "an eye from the eyes of Allah" was reported in Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq from Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, with a chain of transmission that contains an unknown narrator (mubham) and an断绝 (inqita'), and it was also reported from other Salaf. It has been used as a basis for the permissibility of uttering it. Scholars have interpreted it to mean "a special one among Allah's special ones" or "a close friend (wali) among His close friends."

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