And from him...

And from him, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws was asked about the Words of Allah -azwj the Exalted: The Beneficent, Established upon the Throne [20:5] . So he -asws said: ‘Established with regards to everything. So there isn’t anything closer to Him -azwj than a (another) thing. The remote is not far from Him -azwj , and the close-by is not closer to Him -azwj .

He -azwj is evenly Established with regards to everything’. [38] و عنه: عن محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسين بن سعيد عن النضر بن سويد، عن عاصم بن حميد، عن أبي بصير، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام)، قال: «من زعم أن الله من شي‏ء، أو في شي‏ء، أو على شي‏ء، فقد كفر». قلت فسر لي.

قال: «أعني بالحواية من الشي‏ء له، أو بإمساك له، أو من شي‏ء سبقه And from him, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Aasim Bin Hameed, from Abu Baseer, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The one who claims that Allah -azwj is from something, or in something, or upon something, so he has blasphemed’. I said, ‘Explain it for me’.

He -asws said: ‘I -asws mean by the imagining something for Him -azwj , or Grasping Him -azwj , or something preceding Him -azwj ’. وفي رواية أخرى: «من زعم أن الله من شي‏ء فقد جعله محدثا، و من زعم أنه في شي‏ء فقد جعله محصورا، و من زعم أنه على شي‏ء فقد جعله محمولا And in another report, he -asws said: ‘The one who thinks that Allah -azwj is from something, so he Made Him -azwj out to be something new.

And the one who thinks that He -azwj is inside something, so he has made Him -azwj to be fortified. And the one who thinks that He -azwj is upon something, so he has Made Him -azwj to be carried’.

[39] الطبرسي في (الاحتجاج): عن الصادق (عليه السلام)، و قد سأله (عليه السلام) زنديق، فقال: فالكرسي أكبر أم العرش؟ قال (عليه السلام): «كل شي‏ء خلقه الله في جوف الكرسي ما خلا عرشه، فإنه أعظم من أن يحيط به الكرسي Al Tabarsy, in Al Ihtijaj, (It has been narrated) from Al-Sadiq -asws , and an Atheist had asked him -asws , so he said, ‘Is the Chair greater or the Throne?’ He -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Created everything inside of the Chair except for His -azwj Throne.

Thus it is greater than to be surrounded by the Chair’.