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Is it correct to say that "human knowledge is created," by analogy with the fact that man has created power and created mercy, taking into consideration the two noble verses: (Taught man that which he knew not) and (And Allah brought you forth from the wommies of your mothers while you knew nothing), and how do we understand the hadith of Al-Khidr and Moses: "O Moses, my knowledge and your knowledge, compared to Allah’s knowledge, is but like the dip of this sparrow's beak in the ocean," while knowledge is one of Allah's attributes?

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It is correct to say that human knowledge is created because it falls within human actions, which are the creation of Allah, in accordance with His saying: "And Allah has created you and what you do." It is also correct to describe a created being as having knowledge, as in His saying: "Indeed, We give you good tidings of a boy who will be knowing." Describing a created being as having knowledge does not necessitate likening him to the Creator, for Allah Almighty says: "There is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing." Yet, He described man as having hearing and sight in His saying: "And We made him hearing and seeing." The agreement in wording does not mean agreement in the referents or similarity in the attributes, for there is a vast difference between the attributes of the Creator and those of the created. Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen clarifies that the agreement of two names does not mean the agreement of the two named entities. Therefore, it is not necessary that because man is hearing, seeing, and knowing, he is similar to the Creator.

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