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Hadith interpretation

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: The son of Adam causes Me pain as he says: Woe be upon the Time. None of you should say this: Woe be upon the Time, as I am the Time (because) I alternate the day and the night, and when I wish I can finish them up. (Muslim, Book 27, Number 5582)

So, If Human abuses time, does it cause "pain" to God that befits his majesty? And God is time but according to what befits his majesty?

(Just to back this up with some famous scholar, Ibn Uthaymeen says "running is an attribute of God" in his Fatawa al-Aqida, Page 112. And Ibn Uthaymeen also says about this Hadith that His statement (“yuadhani son of Adam”) meaning: he afflicts me with Al Adhaa (harm). So Adhiyyah for Allah is Affirmed and it is obligatory upon us to Affirm it because Allah affirms it for himself).

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