He -asws said: ‘One who alleges that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Does our deeds then Punishes us upon these, so he has spoken with the Compulsion, but one who alleges that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic has Delegated the matters of the Creating and the sustenance to His -azwj Divine Authorities, so he has spoken with the Delegation, and the speaker with the Compulsion is a Kafir, and the speaker with the Delegation is a Polytheist’’.
[13] Appendix: Implementer of the Will and the Desire, Doing whatever He -azwj so Desires to عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْفُقَيْمِيِّ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِلزِّنْدِيقِ حِينَ سَأَلَهُ مَا هُوَ قَالَ هُوَ شَيْءٌ بِخِلَافِ الْأَشْيَاءِ ارْجِعْ بِقَوْلِي إِلَى إِثْبَاتِ مَعْنًى وَ أَنَّهُ شَيْءٌ بِحَقِيقَةِ الشَّيْئِيَّةِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لَا جِسْمٌ وَ لَا صُورَةٌ وَ لَا يُحَسُّ وَ لَا يُجَسُّ وَ لَا يُدْرَكُ بِالْحَوَاسِّ الْخَمْسِ لَا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَوْهَامُ وَ لَا تَنْقُصُهُ الدُّهُورُ وَ لَا تُغَيِّرُهُ الْأَزْمَانُ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Abbas Bin Amro Al Fuqaymi, from Hisham Bin Al Hakam, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said to the atheist when he asked him ‑asws , ‘What is He -azwj ?’ He -asws said: ‘He -azwj is a thing different for the things.
I -asws reiterate with my -asws words to prove the meaning, and He -azwj is a thing in reality of the ‘thing-ness’ apart from that He -azwj has neither a body, nor an image, nor can He -azwj be felt, nor can He -azwj be touched, nor can He -azwj be realised by the five sensory perceptions. Neither can the imaginations grasp Him -azwj , nor can the ages reduce Him -azwj , nor can the times change Him -azwj ’.