Al-Kāfi - The Book on Oneness of Allah (God)

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Oneness of Allah (God) Chapter: Chapter on Can Allah (God) be Considered a Thing?

َّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِي٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َنِ بْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنِ التَّوْحِيدِ فَقُلْتُ أَتَوَهَّ٠ُ شَيْئاً فَقَالَ نَعَ٠ِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ فَهُوَ خِلافُهُ لا يُشْبِهُهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ وَلا تُدْرِكُهُ الاوْهَا٠ُ كَيْفَ تُدْرِكُهُ الاوْهَا٠َا يُعْقَلُ وَخِلافُ ٠َا يُتَصَوَّرُ فِي الاوْهَا٠ُ شَيْ‏ءٌ غَيْرُ ٠1 - Muhammad ibn Ya'qub reported from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from Muhammad ibn Isa, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Najran, who said: I asked Abu Ja'far al-Baqir (as) about Tawhid, and I said: "I imagine something." He replied: "Yes, it is something that is neither rational nor limited.

Whatever your imagination has conceived of anything, it is the opposite of it; nothing resembles Him, and the imagination cannot comprehend Him. How can the imagination grasp Him when He is contrary to what is rational and contrary to what can be conceived in imagination?

Rather, what is imagined is something that is neither rational nor limited." يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/280))