Gems of Jannah
Incomparability of Allah
1. Do not resemble Allah unto anything.
(An-Nahl, 64)
2. The Creator does not resemble anything among the creations.
(Abu Hanifah, Fiqhul-Akbar)
3. Knowing you are incapable of imaging Allah is knowledge in itself.
Attempting to fathom Allah’s Reality is disbelief and polytheism.
(Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, Al-Basit)
4. Ponder Allah’s creations; do not attempt to ponder Allah’s Reality.
(Ibn ^Abbas, Al-Asma’u was-Sifat)
5. Whatever you imagine in your mind, Allah is different from that.
(Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, ^Aqidatu Ahmad)
The Eternality of Allah
6. Allah was [before the creations] and there was nothing else.
(Hadith of the Prophet)
7. Change is the greatest indication of being a creation.
(Al-Junayd Al-Baghdadiyy)
8. Allah is Beginningless with no start; Allah is Everlasting with no end.
(Abu Ja^far At-Tahawiyy, Al-^Aqidah)
The Destining of Allah
9. Verily, Allah has created everything according to His Destiny.
(Al-Qamar, 49)
10. Whatever Allah has willed to be shall be; and whatever Allah has not willed to be shall not be.
(Hadith of the Prophet)
11. Allah does whatever He wills. Allah has the power to do whatever He wills.
(Al-^Aqidah Al-Murshidah)
The Transcendence of Allah
12. Allah is supremely glorified from having boundaries, extremities, sides, organs, appendages, and devices. None of the six directions contain Allah, as is the case with all the creations.
(Abu Ja^far At-Tahawiyy, Al-^Aqidah)
13. Allah was [before the creations] and place was not, and Allah is as He was.
(^Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Al-Farqu Baynul-Firaq)
14. Allah is sublimely clear from being in a place, and Allah is impervious to the alterations of time.
(Muhammad Al-Makkiyy, ^Aqidatus-Salahiyyah)
15. Allah created the universe and willed for the existence of time. Allah is not bound to time and is not designated with place.
(Al-^Aqidah Al-Murshidah)
16. The Originator of the World is Allah, the Unique, the Eternal, the Alive, the Omnipotent, the All-Knowing, the Hearing, the Seeing, the One Who does whatever He wills. Allah is not a bodily characteristic, nor a body, nor an elementary particle. Allah is not a thing formed, circumscribed, enumerated, divisible, compounded, composed, or limited. Allah is not attributed with quiddity (mahiyyah/“whatness”), nor by modality (kayfiyyah/“howness”). Allah is not situated in any location, and time does not lapse upon Him.
(Najmuddin ^Umar An-Nasafiyy, Al-^Aqidah)
“There is absolutely nothing like Allah whatsoever.”
(Ash-Shura, 11)