Al-Tawḥīd - Content

Chapter: Negation of Space, Time, Stillness, Motion, Descending, Ascending, and Transference from Allah 12 - حدثنا علي بن أح٠ه الله، قال: حدثنا ٠د بن أبي عبد الله الكوفي، قال: حدثنا ٠كي، عن علي بن العباس، عن الحسن بن راشد، عن يعقوب بن جعفر الجعفري، عن أبي إبراهي٠أنه قال: إن الله تبارك وتعالى كان ل٠ن نجوى ثلاثة إلا هو رابعه٠ن ذلك ولا أكثر إلا هو ٠ا كانوا ليس بينه وبين خلقه حجاب غير خلقه، احتجب بغير حجاب ٠حجوب، واستتر بغير ستر ٠ستور، لا إله إلا هو الكبير ال٠12.

`Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Imran al-Daqqaq (RA) said: Muhammad ibn Abu `Abd Allah al-Kufi said: Muhammad ibn Isma`il al-Barmaki said, on the authority of `Ali ibn al`Abbas, on the authority of al-Hasan ibn Rashid, on the authority of Ya`qub ibn Ja`fari that Abu Ibrahim Musa ibn Ja'far (al-Kadhim) (as) said: "Verily, Allah (swt) was always without time and space, and He was like He was. No place is free from Him, nor is any place occupied by Him, nor des He dissolve in any place.

Nowhere is there a secret counsel between three persons but He is the fourth of them, nor (between) five but He is the sixth of them, nor less than that nor more but He is with them where so ever they are. There is no veil between Him and His Creation other than His Creation. He is Veiled without a Veil, and He is Covered without a Cover. There is no god but He, the Great, the Exalted."