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Salam

one of the ideas one gets from listening to this lecture below by SHaykh Sham Ud Duha and Mufti Kamaluddin (in the case of the latter the point is touched upon but it is by no means the focus of his talk),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fisz2...feature=relmfu

http://www.islamicspirituality.org/l.../ayyuhal-walad

http://www.deoband.org/2010/04/hadit...utes-of-allah/

As well as this article from Mufti Taqi Uthmani is that the differences of opinion between the asharis, maturidis, atharis, those who assign a location to Allah those who don't, those who take a literal interpreatation of Allahs attributes, those who don't delve into them at all, and those who provide a metaphorical interpretation (with restrictions of course) all fall within the accepted realm of scholarly disagreement.

Often times people will say that muslims are defined by their aqeedah, and thus there can be differences of opinion in fiqh BUT NOT in AQEEDAH. The idea that one gets from the pieces of infromation that i have provided is that this is not the case. there are acceptable differences in aqeedah as well (within bounds obviously), without anyone running the risk of being labelled deviant or out of the fold of ahlussunnah.