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Then he puts forth his main argument, which is summed
up as follows:
The immediate problem with the above is that if Allah
is interceding and mediating on behalf of sinners then whom does he intercede and mediate to? After all,
intercession and mediation presupposes more than one party, that a person goes
before another in order to intercede and mediate on behalf of someone else.
Now if it were true that intercession necessarily
involves two parties and Allah did intercession that would mean that
someone higher and more powerful than Allah in authority and divinity would be
fulfilling the request, namely taking out the people from Hellfire. However,
what we see from the hadith is that it is Allah Himself taking the people out
of Hellfire:
The Prophet added, "Then the prophets and Angels
and the believers will intercede, and (last of all) the Almighty (Allah) will
say, 'Now remains My Intercession.' He will then hold a handful of the
Fire from which He will take out some people whose bodies have been burnt, and they will be thrown into
a river at the entrance of Paradise, called the water of life.
