“Say, ‘The truth is that Allah is One. Allah is Besought of all, needing none. He neither begets nor is begotten, Nor is there to Him an equivalent.’” (Qur’an 112:1-4)
God is the One, the indivisible. He is Eternal and Absolute, He Who created all and was created by none; upon Whom all depend while He depends on none. He is the Self-Sufficient, the Provider. He does not beget, nor was He begotten, nor does He share a partner in His Divine majesty. He Who cannot be known by the eyes, He who is unlike anything, nothing is like him, and He is aware of all things.
God is the Absolute in knowledge: nothing is hidden from Him, and yet He is hidden from everything. He beholds all and hears all: from the smallest particle in the smallest atom to the supernovas that disrupt the heavens – He is aware of all things and in Absolute control.
God is the Absolute in power: nothing transpires except that He allows it, and nothing exists except that He creates it. It is He Who creates by the word “Be,” and where there was nothing becomes something. He Who is unlimited by time or space, transcendent beyond limitation – for it is He Who created all limitations.
