| there is no 'greatest' or 'most knowledgeable' in the grammatical sense, there is only greater and more knowledgeable | There is a deficiency in meaning here |
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| e 'Allah is the most knowledgeable' rather than Allah is more knowledgeable | They tried to escape from comparing the Creator to the creation, but what they were escaping from caused them to fall into something worse than it; it made them come up with an attribute — that if we were to take it by its apparent meaning — both the Creator and the created would be similar |
This is a comparative in its own category, the entity that it is being compared to has been removed, which means it includes everything.
7| Therefore Allah is Greater than everything, Glorified and Exalted is He, and the same is said about 'more knowledgeable' | Not only is this an accurate translation but it is also the correct and desired meaning in contrast to the comparative |
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| The answer: The first is better, and Allah says about Himself: Allah is more knowledgeable | In a nutshell, Ibn 'Uthaymeen is saying; Allahu 'Alam — literally meaning 'Allah is more knowledgeable' means 'Allah is the most knowledgeable', because 'than everything' was removed from the phrase 'Allah is more knowlegeable than everthing' |
You will find in English translations of the Quran and various knowledge related material, that the superlative form is used in place of the comparative, i.
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