‘His are the creation and the command.

‘His are the creation and the command. Blessed be God, the Lord of all beings!'” (7: 54). “Woe upon thee, O questioner! As for my Lord, truly imaginations envelop Him not, uncertainties touch Him not, He is oppressed by none, none is adjacent to Him, phenomena touch Him not, He is questioned not as to anything He does, [54] He comes not upon anything, [55] ‘Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep’ (2: 255).

‘To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and all that is underneath the soil'” (20: 6). D. Imam Ja’far al Sadiq (The Sixth Imam) I.

Seeing God Abu Basir has related that he said to Abu Abdallah (upon whom be peace) “Tell me about God, the Mighty and Majestic Will believers see Him on the Day of Resurrection ?” He answered, “Yes, and they have already seen Him before the Day of Resurrection.”Abu Basir asked, “When ?” The Imam answered, “When He said to them, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said: ‘Yea, verily’ (7: I72).” [56] Then he was quiet for a time.

Then he said, “Truly the believers see him in this world before the Day of Resurrection. Does thou not see Him now?” Abu Basir then said to him, “That I might be made thy sacrifice I Shall I relate this (to others) from thee?” He answered, “No, for if thou relatest it, a denier ignorant of the meaning of what thou sayest will deny it. Then he will suppose that it is comparison and unbelief (Kufr).

But seeing with the heart (al-ru’yah b-il-qalb) is not like seeing with the eyes (al- ru’yah bi-l-ayn). High be God exalted above what the comparers and heretics describe!.” 2. The name that can be named It has been related that Abu Abdallah said, “The name of God is other than God, and everything that can be called by the name of a ‘thing’ (shay’) [57] is created, except God. Therefore, all that tongues express or is worked by hands [58] is created.

God is the goal of him who sets Him as his goal, but the determined goal (al-mughayya, i.e., in the mind of man) is other than the (real) goal. [59] The goal possesses attributes, and all that possesses attributes has been fashioned. But the Fashioner of things does not possess the attributes of any stated limit (hadd musamma). He has not come into being that His Being should be known through fashioning (sun) (carried out) by others other than He.

[60] He does not terminate at a limit unless it be other than He. Whoso understands this principle (hukm) will never fall into error.