Attributes of God

Attributes of Allāh

Praise be to Allāh, Creator of people; He has spread the earth. He makes streams to flow and vegetation to grow on high lands. His primality has no beginning, nor has His eternity any end. He is the First and from ever.…

Imagination cannot surmise Him within the limits of movements, limbs or senses. It cannot be said about Him: “whence”?; and no time limit can be attributed to Him by saying “till”. He is apparent, but it cannot be said…

The gazing of people’s eyes is not hidden from Him, nor the repetition of words, nor the glimpse of hillocks, nor the tread of a footstep in the dark night or in the deep gloom, where the shining moon casts its light and…

He is far above what those whose regard is limited attribute to Him, such as the qualities of measure, having extremities, living in houses and dwelling in abodes, because limits are meant for creation and are…

[Allāh, the Originator from nought :] He did not create things from eternal matter nor after every existing examples, but He created whatever He created and then He fixed limits thereto, and He shaped whatever He shaped…

[A part of the same sermon (about man’s creation, and pointing towards the requirements of life) :] O creature who has been equitably created and who has been nurtured and looked after in the darkness of wombs with…

Then you were taken out from your place of stay to a place you had not seen, and you were not acquainted with the means of awaiting its benefits, or with who guided you to eke out your sustenance from the udder of your…