and it is ' has occurred in several verses of the Qur'an...

and it is ' has occurred in several verses of the Qur'an, including the followings: Surah 'Ale-'Imran, No.3, verse 47 Surah 'Ale-'Imran, No.3, verse 59 Surah Al-An'-am, No.6, verse 73 Surah An-Nahl, No.16, verse 40 Surah Maryam, No.19, verse 35 Surah Yasin, No.36, verse 82 Surah Qafir, No.40, verse 68 This phrase is about the Will of Allah and His Absolute Sovereignty on the subject of creation.

To understand this well, we should know the meaning of the Unity of Acts and the creation of all created beings by Allah's Will. Precisely; Unity of Acts, in terms of His acts, does not need any help or helper from outside Himself. Should He use any means for that purpose, the means itself is created by Him and used by Him.

It is not that He needs some help from outside Himself which is not connected to Him, and to be brought from somewhere else, or if so Allah would not be able to do whatever He wants to. No, it is not like that at all. Allah's Acts need none but Himself and His Will alone. The explanation is that the objective meaning of the phrase / kun fayakun / ('Be! 'and it is) is not that Allah issues a verbal command with the word 'Be', but the reality is that when He wills something to exist it exists.

There will be no time between that Will and its existence, not even a moment. In other words, the phrase / kun fayakun / ('Be! and it is ) is only to bring home to the human mind the Omnipotent Will which, properly speaking, can never be translated into any verbal expression. Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali ibn Abi Talib (as), of whom the holy Prophet (S) had declared: ‘ I (i.e.

the holy Prophet himself) am the City of knowledge and Ali is its Gate', in referring to the phrase mentioned in this verse; -regarding the Divine Omnipotence and the execution of His Will says: "Not by sound uttered, nor by voice heard, His Word, blessed be He, is Action proceeding from Him ". [^1] There is a similar idea in a tradition from Hadrat Musa-ibn-Ja'far, the seventh Imam (as), cited in Al-Kafi as well as in Touhid Saduq.