The Explanation of the Saying of Allah ﴿فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللهِ﴾ Allah Said: ﴿وَللهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللهِ﴾ [which means] “To Allah belongs the east and the west, so wherever you turn yourselves, there is the Wajh of Allah.” The meaning is that wherever you have directed yourselves in the optional prayer, while traveling, then there is the…
Tawhid – Creed
The Reason for the Revelation of Surah Al-Ikhlas The Jews said to the Messenger, “Describe your Lord for us.” Their question was out of stubbornness, not out of the love of knowledge and seeking to be guided by it. For that reason Allah revealed Surah Al-Ikhlas: ﴿قُلْ هُوَ اللهُ أَحَدٌ﴾ [which means] “[O Muhammad,] say Allah is One,” meaning…
All of the Attributes of Allah Are Perfect The Attributes of Allah are Eternal and Everlasting, because the Self is Eternal. Therefore He would not acquire an attribute He did not have in Eternity. As for the attributes of the creation, they are events. They accept development from perfection to what is more perfect. Hence, the Knowledge of Allah…
Dissimilarity to the Creation It is necessary that Allah the Exalted would be Different from the events. This means that He does not resemble anything of His creation. Therefore, He is not a volume that occupies a space and He is not an attribute. The volume is what has containment and an independent standing, such as bodies. The quality is…
Non-neediness of Others Know that the meaning of His Non-neediness of the creation is His not being in need of everything that is other than Himself. So He does not need someone to specify Him with existence, because being in need of another negates His Eternality and the necessity of His Eternality and Everlastingness has been confirmed.
Life Life is necessary to attribute to Allah the Exalted. So He is Living unlike those who are alive. Since His Life is Eternal and Everlasting, it is not by soul and blood. The evidence for the necessity of His Life is the existence of this world, because had He not been Living, then nothing of this world would exist….
Oneness The meaning of Oneness is that He is not a Self composed of pieces. So there is no self like His Self, and no one other than Him has an attribute like His Attribute, or a doing like His Doing. The oneness of number is not meant by His Oneness. The one who is one by number has a…
Knowledge Know that the Knowledge of Allah is Eternal, Beginningless, just as His Self is Eternal. So He never ceased to be Knowledgeable about His Self, Attributes, and what He Brings into existence of His creations. So He is not attributed with an eventual knowledge, because had it been permissible for Him to be attributed with eventual attributes, Eternality would…
Power It is necessary that Allah would have Power over everything. What is meant by “everything” here is the mental possibility. Thus, the mental impossibility is excluded from that, because it does not accept existence, so it is not suitable to be related to the Power of Allah. Ibn Hazm opposed that. He said, “Allah the Mighty and Great has…
Will Know that Will (Al-Iradah or Al-Mashi’ah) is necessary to attribute to Allah. It is an Eternal and Everlasting Attribute; by it, Allah specifies the mentally possible with existence instead of non-existence, and with an attribute over another, and with a time instead of another. The evidence for the necessity of Allah’s Attribute of Will is that had He not…