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“INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF
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“TAUHEED AS-SIFAT” –
ITS ELUCIDATION

TO CONTINUE

TO CONTINUE
This is one of the traditional approaches in ensuring
the understanding of attributes of Allah, amongst
Muslims who are exposed to other religious or
philosophical views, does not deviate from that of
the pious predecessors
(Salafus-Soleheen)

 In man’s reliance upon rationalising to understand the
‘nature’ of God, they may be prone to error which, if left
unguided, may lead to grave consequences.
 Although mankind may discern the existence of God – the
Supreme Being, Creator of every creations, yet knowledge
about who that Supreme Being is (what are His names,
attributes etc.), must come from God Himself.

 Islamic scholars responded by stipulating the ‘criteria’ or
guideline for using reason (‘AQLIYYAH) in theology, which
must also be substantiated with textual basis in Revelations
(NAQLIYYAH).
 Without which, man’s tendencies towards speculating
with anthropomorphic imaginings may occur.

“.. in it (Al-Qur’an) are AAYAT MUHKAMAT - verses basic or
fundamental (of established meaning); they are the
FOUNDATION OF THE BOOK: others are AAYAT MUTASHAABIHAT
– verses not of well-established meaning.”

AAYAT MUHKAMAT – FOUNDATION OF MESSAGE
Say: He is Allah the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal,
Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And
there is none like unto Him.
(Qur’an: Surah al-Ikhlas: 112: 1-4)

"No vision can encompass Him, whereas He
encompasses all vision: for He alone is
unfathomable (latif ) *, all-aware."
(Q: An'am: 6: 103)
* The term 'latif' in ( ‫ٱ‬ُ‫يف‬ِ‫ط‬َّ‫لل‬ ) denotes something that is extremely
subtle in quality, and therefore intangible and unfathomable.
Whenever this term occurs in the Qur'an with reference to God
in conjunction with the adjective 'khabir' ("all aware"), it is
invariably used to express the idea of His inaccessibility to human
perception, imagination or comprehension, as contrasted with His
Own all-awareness.

"There is nothing like unto Him, and yet He
alone is all-hearing, all-seeing."*
(Q: As-Shura 42 : 11)
* The Oneness and Absolute Uniqueness of God is stressed here.
In the phrase "there is nothing like unto Him " implies that He
is fundamentally - not merely in His attributes "different" from
anything that exists or could exist, or anything that man can
conceive or even imagine or define.

Thus, even the "how " of His being "different" from
everything else is beyond the categories of human thought.
Therefore, the concern in Islamic theology is not in trying to
discern His Essence (Dzat), which is an impossibility due to
human imperfection and limitation. But we are encourage to
know Him by way of His attributes and other Signs (Aayat).

SIFAT NAF-SIYYAH
When we contemplate the ‘Divine Being’ we refer to as God (Allah),
and His Existence (Wujud) is an attribute (Sifat) which is inseparable
from being regarded also as His Essence (Dzat).
Thus the term “Sifat Nafsiyyah ” means “Attribute which is also the
Essence”. Another term used is “Sifat Tsubutiyya” – the “Established
or immutable attribute”
ALLAH’S ATTRIBUTE (SIFAT) WHICH IS ALSO HIS ESSENCE (DZAT)

EXISTENCE
WUJUD
 There are countless ways to verify the existence of God. When
Muslim acknowledges God’s existence, by this he is also certain of
what God is not – i.e. anything antithetical to this notion is rejected as
absurd, and cannot be attributed to God.

EXISTENCE
WUJUD
 A Muslim’s belief is one of conviction, once established, it
must not be left to uncertainty or doubts. Even if one do not fully
know what a thing is, he can be regarded to essentially know it
sufficiently, only by way of denying what, it is not.

“Such is Allah, your Lord. There is no God save Him, the
Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He takes care
of all things.”
(Q: An’am : 6: 102)
AMONGST OTHERS

AMONGST OTHERS
“Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves
the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth?
Nay, they have no firm belief.”
(Qur’an: Tur : 52 35-36)

 Our very own existence, and existence of creations cannot be
denied.
 From whence do these creations emanate? If it comes from
yet another creation, then it still has not resolve the question as
to who is the initial Creator, leading to a never ending loop of
questioning (talsalsul) – an absurdity.
 The only logical answer would be that it must have come from
the First Cause (God, Creator), Who alone is not part of creation.

FIRSTLY :
By unwavering mathematical law we can prove that our universe was
designed and executed by a great engineering Intelligence.
Suppose you put ten coins, marked from one to ten, into your pocket
and give them a good shuffle. Now try to take them out in sequence
from one to ten, putting back the coin each time and shaking them all
again.

FIRSTLY :
Mathematically we know that your chance of first drawing number
one is one in ten; of drawing one and two in succession, one in 100; of
drawing one, two and three in succession, one in a thousand, and so
on; your chance of drawing them all, from one to number ten in
succession, would reach the unbelievable figure of one chance in ten
thousand million.

FIRSTLY :
By the same reasoning, so many exacting conditions are necessary for
life on earth that they could not possibly exist in proper relationship by
chance.
The earth rotates on its axis at one thousand miles an hour; if it turned at
one hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as
long as now, and the hot sun would then burn up our vegetation during
each long day while in the long night any surviving, sprout would freeze.

FIRSTLY :
Again, the sun, source of our life, has a surface temperature of 12,000
degrees Fahrenheit, and our earth is just far enough away so that this
"eternal fire" warms us just enough and not too much! If the sun gave
off only one-half its present radiation, we would freeze, and if it gave
half as much more, we would roast.

FIRSTLY :
The slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, gives us our
seasons; if it had not been so tilted, vapours from the ocean would
move north and south, piling up for us continents of ice.

FIRSTLY :
If our moon was, say, only 50 thousand miles away instead of its actual
distance our tides would be so enormous that twice a day all continents
would be submerged; even the mountains would soon be eroded away.

FIRSTLY :
If the crust of the earth had been only ten feet thicker, there would
be no oxygen without which animal life must die. Had the ocean
been a few feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have been
absorbed and no vegetable life could exist.

FIRSTLY :
Or if our atmosphere had been thinner, some of the meteors, now
burned in space by the million every day, would be striking all parts
of the earth, starting fires everywhere.
Because of these, and host of other examples, there is not one
chance in millions that life on our planet is an accident!

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SECONDLY :
The resourcefulness of life to accomplish its purpose is a manifestation of
all-pervading Intelligence.
What life itself is, no man has fathomed. It has neither weight nor
dimensions, but it does have force; a growing root will crack a rock.

SECONDLY :
Life has conquered water, land and air, mastering the elements,
compelling them to dissolve and reform their combinations.

SECONDLY :
Life, the sculptor, shapes all living things; an artist, it designs every leaf of
every tree, and colours every flower.
Life is a musician and has each bird to sing its love songs, the insects to
call each other in the music of their multitudinous sounds.

SECONDLY :
Life is a sublime chemist, giving taste to fruits and spices, and perfume to
the rose changing water and carbonic acid into sugar and wood and, in so
doing, releasing oxygen that animal may have the breath of life.

SECONDLY :
Behold an almost invisible drop of protoplasm, transparent and jelly-like,
capable of motion, drawing energy from the sun.

SECONDLY :
This single cell, this transparent mist like droplet, holds within itself the
germ of life, and has the power to distribute this life to every living thing,
great and small. The powers of this droplet are greater than our
vegetation and animals and people, for all life came from it.

SECONDLY :
Nature did not create life; fire-blistered rocks and a salt less sea could not
meet the necessary requirements. "Who, then, has put it here?"

THIRDLY :
Animal wisdom speaks irresistibly of a good Creator who infused instinct
into otherwise helpless little creatures.
The young salmon spends years at sea, then comes back to his own river,
and travels up the very side of the river into which flows the tributary
where he was born. What brings him back so precisely?

THIRDLY :
If you transfer him to another tributary he will know at once that he is off
his course and he will fight his way down and back to the main stream
and then turn up against the current to finish his destiny more accurately.

THIRDLY :
Even more difficult to solve is the mystery of eels.
These amazing creatures migrate at maturity from all ponds and rivers
everywhere those from Europe across thousands of miles of ocean - all
bound for the same abysmal deeps near Bermuda. There they breed and
die.

THIRDLY :
The little ones, with no apparent means of knowing anything except that
they are in a wilderness of water, nevertheless find their way back not
only to the very shore from which their parent came but thence to the
rivers, lakes or little ponds -- so that each body of water is always
populated with eels.

THIRDLY :
No American eel has ever been caught in Europe, no European eel in
African waters. Nature has even delayed the maturity of the European eel
by a year or more to make up for it's longer journey.
Where does the directing impulse originate?

THIRDLY :
A wasp will overpower a grasshopper, dig a hole in the earth, sting the
grasshopper in exactly the right place so that he does not die but
becomes unconscious and lives on as a form of preserved meat.
Then the wasp will lay her eggs handily so that her children when they
hatch can nibble without killing the insect on which they feed; to them
dead meat would be fatal.

THIRDLY :
The mother then flies away and dies; she never sees her young. Surely the
wasp must have done all this right the first time and every time, or else
there would be no wasp.
Such mysterious techniques cannot be explained by adoption; they were
bestowed.

FOURTHLY :
Man has something more than animal instinct - the power of reason.
No other animal has ever left a record of its ability to count ten or even to
understand the meaning of ten. Where instinct is like a single note of a
flute, beautiful but limited, the human brain contains all the notes of all
the instruments in the orchestra.

FOURTHLY :
No need to belabour this fourth point; thanks to the human reason we
can contemplate the possibility that we are what we are only because we
have received a spark of Universal Intelligence.

FIFTHLY :
Provision for all living is revealed in phenomena which we know today
but which Darwin did not know - such as the wonders of genes.
So unspeakably tiny are these genes that, if all of them responsible for all
living people in the world could be put in one place, there would be less
than a thimbleful.

FIFTHLY :
Yet these ultra-microscopic genes and their companions, the
chromosomes, inhabit every living cell and are the absolute keys to all
human, animal and vegetable characteristics.
A thimble is a small place in which to put all the individual characteristics
of two thousand million human beings.

FIFTHLY :
However, the facts are beyond question. Well then, how do genes lock up
all the normal heredity of a multitude of ancestors and preserve the
psychology of each in such an infinitely small space?

FIFTHLY :
Here evolution really begins - at the cell, the entity, which holds and
carries genes.
How a few million atoms, locked up as an ultra-microscopic gene, can
absolutely rule all on earth is an example of profound cunning and
provision that could emanate only from a Creative Intelligence - no other
hypothesis will serve.

SIXTHLY :
By the economy of nature, we are forced to realise that only infinite
wisdom could have foreseen and prepared with such astute husbandry.
Many years ago a species of cactus was planted in Australia as a
protective fence.

SIXTHLY :
Having no insect enemies in Australia the cactus soon began a prodigious
growth; the alarming abundance persisted until the plants covered an
area as long and wide as England, crowding inhabitants out of the towns
and. villages, and destroying their farms.

SIXTHLY :
Seeking a defence, the entomologists scoured the world; finally they
turned up an insect which exclusively feeds on cactus, and would eat
nothing else.

SIXTHLY :
It would breed freely too; and it had no enemies in Australia. So animal
soon conquered vegetable and today the cactus pest has retreated, and
with it all but a small protective residue of the insects, enough to hold the
cactus in check forever.
Such checks and balances have been universally provided.

SIXTHLY :
Why have not fast-breeding insects dominated the earth? Because they
have no lungs such as man possesses; they breathe through tubes. But
when insects grow large, their tubes do not grow in ratio to the increasing
size of the body.

SIXTHLY :
Hence there has never been an insect of great size; this limitation on
growth has held them all in check.
If this physical check had not been provided, man could not exist.
Imagine meeting a hornet as big as a lion!

SEVENTH :
The fact that man can conceive the idea of God is in itself a unique proof.
The conception of god rises from a divine faculty of man, not shared with
the rest of our world - the faculty we call imagination.

SEVENTH :
By its power, man and man alone can find the evidence of things unseen.
The vista that power opens up is unbounded; indeed, as man is perfected
imagination becomes a spiritual reality.

SEVENTH :
He may discern in all the evidence of design and purpose the great truth
that heaven is wherever and whatever is; that God is everywhere and in
everything, but nowhere so close as in our hearts.
It is scientifically as well as imaginatively true; in the words of the
psalmist: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows
His handiwork.”

“We are still in the dawn of the scientific age and every
increase of light reveals more brightly the handiwork of an
intelligent Creator. In the 90 years since Darwin we have
made stupendous discoveries; with a spirit of scientific
humility and of faith grounded in knowledge we are
approaching even nearer to an awareness of God. For
myself, I count seven reasons for my faith" :
Mr. A. Cressy Morrison,
former President of the New York Academy of Sciences

“Whatever is in the heavens and on earth,
doth declare the Praises and Glory of Allah―
the Sovereign, the Holy One,
the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”

What Allah says is indeed true.
Any who can sincerely think; who can observe many such
wonderful signs – having knowledge of such complexity; and of
how amazingly equipped some of these are; their ability to
function in such a manner, etc. - and these things are not able to
directly manage themselves, but somehow are being managed -
surely, we have to concede of the power of Allah, the Creator

Who created and designed them? and Whose power Sustains
and continue to manifest a Will over them ?
To deny existence of God - this is sheer arrogance and surely
preposterous for this would then merely ascribe it to 'nature'.
And what is 'nature'? An unknown entity, devoid of any
attribution of Will nor intelligence. Yet they imply that it (nature)
alone can sustain us ... !??

How stubbornly foolish are the deniers of truth ! Nay, if we sincerely
look within our heart and mind, especially reinforced and supported
by our pure intuition (FITRAH ), these evidence prove clearly of the
existence of an absolute Creator and Sustainer.
And there can only be One Who is the Absolute - and to deny this is
to conceal or cover an obvious truth (the attitude termed ‘KUFR‘ ).
Na-'uu-dzu bil-laah min dzaa-lik!

SIFAT SAL-BIYYAH
 The term “Sifat Sal-biyyah ” means “Negating attributes”,
 By which, we Muslims are taught to negate attributes that is
opposite to these, to be attributed to God.
ALLAH’S DISTINCTIVE ATTRIBUTES (SIFAT) -NEGATING OTHERS

SIFAT SAL-BIYYAH
 This is because, when we say God ‘exist’, and at the same
time we are applying this term ‘exist’ also to ourselves or to
creations, if we do not therefore differentiate the Divine from the
created regarding this (concept of existence), it would constitute
‘shirk ’ (setting up partner or partners) to Allah, Who Alone is
(God) Divine.

SIFAT SAL-BIYYAH
 Thus, the logical process towards ensuring we do not ascribe
partners to Allah is to differentiate the meaning of His Existence
(Wujud) from that of others.
 So what are these unique attributes that is exclusive to God’s
existence?

EXISTENCE
ETERNITY - FOREVER EXISTING
WITHOUT ANY BEGINNING
QIDAM
 Our understanding of “existence” must be differentiated when
applied to God. Firstly, Allah is the creator of our ‘notion’ of time, thus
only Allah alone has existed without any beginning (forever existing).
Whose existence is (WAJIB-AL-WUJUD) essential ,to the existence of
creations – i.e. termed ‘contingent existence’ - (MUMKIN-AL-WUJUD).

“He (Allah) is the First and the Last”
(Qur’an: Hadid : 57: 3)
AMONGST OTHERS

EXISTENCE
EVERLASTINGNESS –
ETERNALLY WITHOUT END
BAQA’
 As our understanding of “existence” must be differentiated when
applied to God, therefore secondly, Allah alone is Absolute and will
always exist without any ending (forever existing). All other existence
(i.e. in creations) is only contingent existence (MUMKIN AL-WUJUD)
which may cease, dependent upon the Will of Allah.

“But will abide (forever) the Face of thy Lord― full of
Majesty, Bounty and Honour.”
(Qur’an: Ar-Rahmaan: 55: 27)

EXISTENCE
MUKHALA-FATUHU-LIL-HAWADITH
DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING WHICH
IS REGARDED AS NEW (CREATION)
 Muslim holds the belief that we cannot attribute to Allah similar
attributes like those possessed by creations. Any descriptions in
the Qur’an and As-Sunnah which use metaphors or allegorical
verses (ayat mutashabbiha) for Allah, must not be taken as literal or
regarded as having a decisive meaning.

AMONGST OTHERS
“There is nothing whatever like unto Him”
(Qur’an: Shura: 42: 11)

AMONGST OTHERS
“He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is
none like unto Him.”
(Qur’an: al-Ikhlas: 112: 3-4)

EXISTENCE
QIYAA-MUHU-BI-NAFSIHI
HE EXISTED BY HIMSELF
(WITHOUT NEED FOR OTHERS)
 Men’s tendencies towards anthropomorphic attributions to God is
to be refuted. Allah alone is God, the One Being who is Absolute and
utterly transcends the notion of ever needing a cause, other than in
and by Himself.

AMONGST OTHERS
“O ye men! it is ye that have need of Allah: but Allah is
the One Free of all wants, Worthy of all praise.”
(Qur’an: Faatir: 35: 15)

EXISTENCE
WAH-DAA-NIYAH
ABSOLUTE ONENESS
 In our understanding Allah - His attributes (sifaat ), His Names
(asma’) and His Acts (Af’al ); we do not in any way negate His Absolute
Oneness. Allah being the Absolute One, indivisible, Infinite Being –
having no partners, etc. is fundamental in the Islamic Creed.

AMONGST OTHERS
“Say: He is Allah the One and Only;.”
(Qur’an: al-Ikhlas: 112: 1)
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AMONGST OTHERS
“And your God is one God; there is no god but He Most
Gracious, Most Merciful.”
(Qur’an: Baqarah: 2: 163)

AMONGST OTHERS
“If there were in the heavens and the earth, other gods
besides Allah, there would have been ruin in both! But glory
to Allah the Lord of the Throne: (High is He) above what they
attribute to Him! .”
(Qur’an: Anbiya: 21: 22)

AMONGST OTHERS
“They disbelieve who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity:
for there is no god except One God. .”
(Qur’an: Maa-idah: 5: 72)

SIFAT MA-’AANIY
 The term “Sifat Ma’aaniy ” would mean “Attributing with the
meaning of”.
 While “Existence” is both Allah’s attribute (Sifat) and essence
(Dzat), there are other meaningful attributes which we may know
Allah with, and generally understood.

SIFAT MA-’AANIY
 And in the Revealed texts too, such words are also being used.
It is in the meaning (not essence) of these words that we may
conceive. But, our conception of these meanings remains only as
‘allegorical’ or ‘metaphors’ for we cannot claim to know the full
Reality of God’s attributes.
 Yet we also cannot deny God of not having these attributes
because that would be ridiculous and absurd.

EXISTENCE
POSSESSING POWER
QUDRAH
 Certainly Allah is all-powerful. Thus, we regard as absurdity for
any one to entertain the assertion of God as having attributes of
weakness, impotent etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“For verily, Allah hath power over all things.”
(Qur’an: Baqarah: 2: 20)

EXISTENCE
IRAADAH
POSSESSING WILL
 Certainly Allah possesses ‘Will’. Thus, we regard as absurdity for
any one to entertain the misconception of God without a Will,
incapable of decree and decision, inconsequential, uncreative, etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“For verily, your Lord is the (sure) Accomplisher of
what He wills (plans).”
(Qur’an: Hud: 11: 107)

AMONGST OTHERS
“Verily, when He (Allah) intends a thing,
His command is ‘Be’ and it is!”
(Qur’an: Ya Seen: 36: 82)

EXISTENCE
KNOWING
‘ILMUN
 Certainly Allah is all-knowing. Thus, we regard as absurdity for
any one to entertain the assertion of God as being ignorant,
forgetful, etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“He is Allah, than Whom there is no other god, the
Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the
Beneficent, Merciful. “
(Qur’an: Hashr: 59: 22)

AMONGST OTHERS
“For Allah has full knowledge of all things. “
(Qur’an: Ankabut: 29: 62)

EXISTENCE
HAYAAT
LIVING
 Certainly Allah is the Ever-Living. Thus, we regard as
absurdity for any one to entertain the assertion of God who is
dead or who can die.

AMONGST OTHERS
“Allah! There is no god but He―the Living,
the Self-Subsisting Eternal.“
(Qur’an: Aali ‘Imran: 3: 2)

AMONGST OTHERS
“He is the living (One): There is no god but He: Call upon
Him giving Him sincere devotion.“
(Qur’an: Mu’min (Ghafir): 40: 65)

EXISTENCE
HEARING
SAM’UN
 Certainly Allah is all-Hearing. Thus, we regard as absurdity for
any one to entertain the ridiculous assertion of God as being deaf,
deprived or obstructed from hearing etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“For verily, Allah is He who hears and knows all
things.”
(Qur’an: An-Nisa’: 4: 148)

EXISTENCE
BA-SWA-RUN
SEEING
 Certainly Allah is All-Seeing. Thus, we regard as absurdity for
any one to entertain the ridiculous assertion of God as being
blind, or that things can be concealed or hidden from Him, etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“There is nothing whatever like unto Him, and He is
the One that hears and sees (all things).”
(Qur’an: Shura: 42: 11)

AMONGST OTHERS
“Verily Allah knows the unseen of the heavens and
the earth: and Allah sees well all that ye do.”
(Qur’an: Hujurat: 49: 18)

EXISTENCE
KALAAMUN
SPEECH
 Certainly Allah possesses Speech. Thus, we regard as absurdity
for any one to entertain the foolish assertion of God as being dumb,
unable to communicate, etc.

AMONGST OTHERS
“And to Moses Allah spoke direct.―.”
(Qur’an: An-Nisa’: 4: 164)

AMONGST OTHERS
“We have, without doubt sent down the Message
(Al-Qur’an) ; and We will assuredly guard it (from
corruption).”
(Qur’an: Hijr: 15: 9)

AMONGST OTHERS
“Al-Qur’an is the speech of Allah, it is not from
amongst creations (makhluq).” *
(Hadith of Prophet Muhammad s.a.a.w.)

Although the thirteen essential attributes is regarded as
sufficient, the tendency to regard Allah (God) as being
remote - being transcendent – as though unrelated to
our existence, Islamic scholars added these seven more
attributes to refute such absurd notions, i.e. to re-assert
the Ever presence of Allah’s existence, in man’s life.

This is because our understanding of God’s existence is
beyond the notion of transcendent or immanent which
our mind may tend to imagine. For some may regard
God as a Being, totally detached and uninvolved is
man’s existence. They may regard His attributes as mere
potentials, thus these additional seven attributes
remove the fallacy.

SIFAT MA-’ANAWIYAH
 The term “Sifat Ma’nawiyyah ” would mean “Attributing the
full and relevant consequence from those meanings” to God.
 We tend to think of God’s existence as being on a different
plane from ours, and thus despite knowing His attributes, some
assume that God has no direct relation to our present life on this
earth.

 For example, although one can understand God to be endowed
with power, having a Will, Knowing, Living, Hearing, Seeing and
Speaking, there may be people who erroneously assume these as
mere potentialities of God.
 But, some may doubt by still asking: “can God only be said to be
‘having these attributes’ or does He (even ‘now’) is ever manifesting
those attributes?”

 The possibility of it being ambiguous as some people
perhaps may regard God’s existence to be detached from their
own, therefore, majority of Islamic scholars added these to the
seven previous attributes, to remove that ambiguity.

EXISTENCE
QUDRAH
POSSESSING POWER
KAU-NUHU QAADIRAN
HE IS EVER POWERFUL

EXISTENCE
IRAADAH
POSSESSING WILL
KAU-NUHU MUREEDAN
HE IS EVER WILLING

EXISTENCE
KNOWING
‘ILMUN
KAU-NUHU ‘ALEEMAN
HE IS EVER KNOWING

EXISTENCE
HAYAAT
LIVING
KAU-NUHU HAY-YAN
HE IS EVER ALIVE

EXISTENCE
HEARING
SAM’UN
KAU-NUHU SAMEE-’AN
HE IS EVER HEARING

EXISTENCE
BASWARUN
SEEING
KAU-NUHU BASWEE-RAN
HE IS EVER SEEING

EXISTENCE
SPEECH
KALAAMUN
KAU-NUHU MUTAKAL-LIMAN
HE IS EVER SPEAKING

1 – An attribute which is also the
Essence.
5 – Distinctive (negating) attributes.
7 – Attributes in the meanings.
7 – Attributing full consequence and
relevance to the meanings.
SIFAT NAFSIYYAH
SIFAT SAL-BIYYAH
SIFAT MA-’AANIY
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