Al-Tawḥīd - Content

Chapter: Negation of Space, Time, Stillness, Motion, Descending, Ascending, and Transference from Allah ه الله، قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهي٠، عن أبيه، عن ابن ٠رو، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠أن الله عز وجل في شئ أو ٠ن شئ أو على شئ.

قال ٠صنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: الدليل على أن الله عز وجل لا في ٠اكن كلها حادثة، وقد قا٠الدليل على أن الله عز وجل قدي٠اكن، وليس يجوز أن يحتاج الغني القدي٠ا كان غنيا عنه، ولا أن يتغير ع٠وجودا عليه، فصح اليو٠يزل كذلك وتصديق ذلك: 10.

My father (RA) said: `Ali ibn Ibrahim said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn Mahbub, on the authority of Hammad ibn `Amr, that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) said: “Verily, whoever claims that Allah, the Mighty and High, is in a thing or from a thing or on a thing ahs uttered a lied.” The Compiler (RA) of this book says: The proof that Allah, the Mighty and High, is not in space is that space is caused.

The proof has already been established that Allah, that the Mighty and High, is without beginning, and existed prior to the existence of space. It is not permissible to say that the Self-Sufficient [Ghani] without Beginning [Qadim] may be in need of anything, nor that He may change from what He has always been. Therefore, it is correct to say that He is not in a place since He has never been subjected to space. The proof for this is (to be found in the following traditions):