Recognition of Allah (s.w.t)
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Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Allah's divine Unity is the life of the soul.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 540; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 444 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
[Faith in] Allah's divine Unity is that you do not subject Him to the limitations of your imagination.
Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 470; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 444 link
[Faith in] Allah's divine Unity is that you do not deem applicable to your Lord that which applies to you, and [faith in] His divine Justice is that you do not blame Him for that which you are blameworthy.
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 11, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 444 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
The very first step to Allah's worship is to attain inner knowledge of Him, and the origin of attaining inner knowledge of Allah, Exalted be His Praise, is through His divine Unity. The very basis of His divine Unity is to negate any kind of limitation from Him, since the intellects are able to witness that every limited being is created.
Amali al-Tusi, p. 22, no. 28; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 444 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Amir al-Mu'minin Im?m 'Al? ibn Ab? T?lib (a.s.) said in his will to his son, al-Hasan (AS), 'And know my son that if your Lord were to have a partner, his messengers would surely have come to you, and you would have seen the signs of his dominion and his power, and you would know his acts and his attributes. He, however, is One God, just as He as described Himself. He is neither opposed by anyone in His kingdom, nor will He ever cease to be.'
Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 31; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 445 link
If you say that there are two gods, then they are either in complete agreement on everything or completely separate in their spheres of influence. But when we look at this orderly creation, the continuous orbits, the alternation of night and day, and the sun and the moon, the soundness of the situation and the organisation and sound management of it indicates that the Director [of all creation] is One.'
al-Tawhid, p. 243, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 445 link
The continuous unity of management [in the cosmos] and the perfection of creation, as Allah, Mighty and Exalted, has said, "Had there been gods in them (i.e. the heavens and the earth) other than Allah, they would surely have fallen apart"[ Qur'an 21:22].
al-Tawhid, p. 250, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 445 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
Im?m Al? ibn M?s? al-Rez? (a.s.) was asked the following by a man believing in dualism, 'I believe that the creator of the world are two, so what is the proof that He is One?' Im?m replied, 'Your belief that there are two is proof in itself that He is One, for verily you have only claimed the second after having affirmed the existence of the One. So the One is already a unanimous fact it is more than one that is controversial [and remains to be proven].
al-Tawhid, p. 270, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 446 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
He expresses information but not through a tongue or voice. He listens but not with the holes and organs of hearing. He speaks but does not utter words; He remembers but does not learn When He wishes to create something, He says to it 'Be' and it is, but not through a voice that can strike the ears, nor a calling that can be heard. Rather, His speech, Glory be to Him, is an act of His that He creates and incorporates, which did not exist before, for were it an ever-existing thing it would be a second god
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 186; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 452 link
Verily things come into being solely by His will and His wish; without the need for speech, alternation of breath or utterance with the tongue.
al-Tawhid, p. 100, no. 8; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 453 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
He manifests the wonders of His management for the onlookers, but by virtue of the exaltedness of His Might He is Hidden from the imagination of the thinkers.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 213; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 453 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
The sights do not apprehend Him " said, 'The hearts' fancies cannot apprehend Him so how can the eyesights apprehend Him?!
Amali al-Saduq, p. 334, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 447 link
Verily Allah, Blessed and most High, displayed to His Prophet in his heart, whatever He liked from the light of His Greatness.
al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 95, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 447 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Praise be to Allah, the First before every first, and the Last after every last, and His Firstness necessitates that there is no beginning to Him, and His Lastness necessitates that there is no end to Him.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 101; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 447 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
He never ceases to exist and will always be, the First before all things without a beginning, and the Last after all things without an end.
Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 31; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
was once asked by a Jew, 'When did our Lord, Mighty and Exalted, come to be?', to which he replied, 'O Jew, It is not that our Lord was not and then came to be, for the question 'When did x come to be?' is posed regarding something that is not there and then comes to be. He exists without coming into being; He is ever existing having nothing before Him. He is before 'before' itself, before any limit. Limits do not apply to Him for He is the ultimate limit of all limits.'
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 331, no. 18; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Verily Allah, Blessed and most High, existed when nothing else did, He is light not darkness, truthful with no falsehood about Him, all-knowing with no ignorance about Him, ever-living with no death about Him, and He is such today, and thus will He remain forever.'
al-Tawhid, p. 141, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Verily Allah is all knowledge with no ignorance about Him, He is all Life without any death around Him, and all Light with no darkness about Him.
al-Tawhid, p. 137, no. 11; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Verily Allah is all knowledge with no ignorance about Him, He is all Life without any death around Him, and all Light with no darkness about Him.
al-Tawhid, p. 137, no. 11; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Allah is Omnipresent without any external source of life rather He lives through Himself.'
al-Tawhid, p. 142, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 448 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The number of droplets of water, or of stars in the sky, or of gusts of wind in the air are not unknown to Him, and neither is the crawling of ants on rocks, nor the settling place of tiny particles in the darkness of the night. He knows the spots where leaves fall and the subtle movement of the pupils of the eyes.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 178; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 449 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
He knows the howls of beasts in the forests, the sins of the people committed in secret, the fish's frequenting the deep seas and the rising of the waters by tempestuous winds.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 198; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 449 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
His knowledge pierces through the inside of unknown secrets and encompasses the innermost beliefs of the hearts.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 108; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 449 link
He always knows what is to be, such that His knowledge of it before its coming into being is the same as His knowledge after its coming into being.
al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 107, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 449 link
Im?m Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-S?diq (a.s.) was once asked about Allah's knowledge of space [i.e. the concept] and whether He knows it before its coming into existence or during it or after it, to which he replied, 'Most High is Allah! He always knows space before its conception just as He knows it after He has created it, and such is His knowledge of all things like His knowledge of space.'
al-Tawhid, p. 137, no. 9; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 449 link
Knowledge is His very essence and not the object of knowing [or a known], such that when He created things, knowledge projected from Him onto the known things.
Nur al-Thaqalayn, v. 5, p. 237, no. 41; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 450 link
The knowledge of Allah cannot be defined by where, nor can Allah's knowledge be described by how. Allah's knowledge cannot be separated from Him, nor can Allah be distinguished from it, and there is no barrier between Allah and His knowledge.
al-Tawhid, p. 138, no. 16; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 450 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
And I bear witness that He is just and acts justly, and is an arbitrator who decides fairly.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 214; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 450 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
[Faith in] divine justice is that you do not accuse Him of anything.
Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 470; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 450 link
But I know that there is no wrong in Your decree and no hurry in Your vengeance. He alone hurries who fears to miss, and only the weak needs to wrong. But You are exalted, my God, high indeed above all that!
al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 297, Supplication 48; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 450 link
[It is faith in] Allah's divine Unity and divine Justice [Faith in] Allah's divine Unity is that you do not deem applicable to your Lord that which applies to you, and [faith in] His divine Justice is that you do not attribute to Him that of which you are blameworthy.
al-Tawhid, p. 96, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 451 link
Marwan b. Muslim narrated: 'Ibn Abi al-`Aawja' once came to Abu `Aabdillah (AS) [i.e. Imam al-Sadiq], and asked, 'Is it not true that you claim that Allah is the Creator of all things?' to which Abu `Aabdillah (AS) replied, 'Yes.' So he retorted, 'I create!' So Imam asked him, 'How do you create?!' He replied, 'I defecate in a place, then wait for it, and it becomes a creature, which I have created!' So Abu `Aabdillah (AS) said, 'Is it not true that the creator of something should know what he has created?' to which he replied yes. Imam continued, 'Well do you know the female from the male [of what you have supposedly created], and do you know its lifespan?' to which he had no answer.'
al-Tawhid, p. 295, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 451 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
The Originator of all things from their conception, and their Inventor from the very beginning with His Power and Wisdom, [He creates] not from anything otherwise the very concept of invention would be nullified, nor for any cause otherwise the very concept of origination would be inapplicable. He creates whatever He pleases however He pleases.
al-Tawhid, p. 98, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 451 link
Verily Allah, Mighty and Exalted, cannot be attributed with incapacity, but that which you are asking cannot ever be.
Mishkat al-Anwar, p. 259; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 452 link
Woe betide you! Verily Allah can never be ascribed with incapacity, and who is there more powerful than the One who can shrink the earth and enlarge the egg [if He so wills]?!
al-Tawhid, p. 127, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 452 link
He who attains inner knowledge of Allah has achieved perfection in his knowledge indeed.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7999; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 436 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The inner knowledge of Allah, Glory be to Him, is the highest of knowable truths.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9864; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 436 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The fruit of knowledge is attaining inner knowledge of Allah.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4586; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 436 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
He whose heart finds peace in knowing Allah, finds peace in being needless of Allah's creatures.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8896; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 437 link
If people knew the virtue of knowing Allah, Mighty and Exalted, they would never extend their gaze to the splendour and bounties of the life of this world that Allah has granted to the enemies. They would then regard such people's worldly goods to be more insignificant that the dust under their feet, and they would take great pleasure at attaining knowledge of Allah, Mighty and Exalted, and would savour it as if they were tasting the experience of being in the gardens of Paradise with the friends of Allah. Verily the inner knowledge of Allah is an intimate companion in every type of desolation, a friend in every type of loneliness, a light in every darkness, a source of strength from all weakness, and a cure for all ailments.
al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 247, no. 347; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 437 link
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