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…

Kalam-Speech Speech is an Eternal and Everlasting Attribute. He is a Speaker by this Attribute; a Commander, Forbidder, Promiser, and Threatener. It is not like the speech of another, rather it is Eternal by the Eternality of the Self. It does not resemble the speech of the creation. It is neither a sound that takes place by the passage of…

Hearing It is an Eternal Attribute that is confirmed for the Self of Allah. He hears the sounds with an Eternal and Everlasting Hearing. It is not like our hearing; it is not with an ear or ear canal.  And so, nothing escapes His Hearing, Exalted is He, meaning no heard thing is absent from His Hearing, even if it…

Everlastingness Everlastingness is necessary for Allah, meaning that non-existence does not follow His Existence, because once it was confirmed mentally that Allah is Eternal, it was necessary that He would be Everlasting. This is because had it been possible that His Existence would be followed by non-existence, Eternity would not be applicable to Him. Therefore He is the One Who…

Eternality Eternality is necessary for Allah, meaning having no beginning. When referring to Allah [the term] Qidam does not mean a long period of time that lapsed. The expressions Qadim and Azaliyy, if used in reference to Allah, mean that Allah has no beginning for His Existence. Thus it is said that Allah is Azaliyy and Allah is Qadim. If…

Existence Know, may Allah have Mercy upon you, that Allah the Exalted is Existing Eternally and Everlastingly, so His Existence is not by the creating of a creator. Some people have considered the statement “Allah [is] Mawjud [Existent]” to be objectionable because the pattern of the word “mawjud” is the pattern dedicated for what receives the action [maf^ul]. The response…

The Thirteen Attributes of Allah   It was the norm of the later scholars who authored works in the Creed to say that the personal obligation on every accountable person (meaning the pubescent, sane person) is to know the Thirteen Attributes among the Attributes of Allah:  Existence, Eternality, Dissimilarity to the creation, Oneness, non-neediness of others, Everlastingness, Power, Will, Life,…