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SERMON 162


Attributes of Allah

Praise be to Allah, Creator of people; He has spread
the earth. He makes streams to flow and vegetation to grow on high lands. His primality
has no beginning, nor has His eternity any end. He is the First and from ever. He is the
everlasting without limit. Foreheads bow before Him and lips declare His oneness. He
determined the limits of things at the time of His creating them, keeping Himself away
from any likeness.

Imagination cannot surmise Him within the limits of
movements limbs or senses. It cannot be said about Him: "whence"; and no time
limit can be attributed to Him by saying "till". He is apparent, but it cannot
be said "from what". He is hidden, but it cannot be said "in what". He
is not a body which can die, nor is He veiled so as to be enclosed therein. He is not near
to things by way of touch, nor is He remote from them by way of separation.

The gazing of people's eyes is not hidden from Him,
nor the repetition of words, nor the glimpse of hillocks, nor the tread of a footstep in
the dark night or in the deep gloom, where the shining moon casts its light and the
effulgent sun comes in its wake, through its setting and appearing again and again with
the rotation of time and periods, by the approach of the advancing night or the passing
away of the running day.

He precedes every extremity and limit, and every
counting and numbering. He is far above what those whose regard is limited attribute to
Him, such as the qualities of measure, having extremities, living in house and dwelling in
abodes, because limits are meant for creation and are attributable only to other than
Allah.

Allah, the Originator from naught

He did not create things from eternal matter nor
after ever-existing examples, but He created whatever He created and then He fixed limits
thereto, and He shaped whatever He shaped and gave the best shape thereto. Nothing can
disobey Him, but the obedience of something is of no benefit to Him. His knowledge about
those who died in the past is the same as His knowledge about the remaining survivors, and
His knowledge about whatever there is in the high skies is like His knowledge of whatever
there is in the low earth.

A part of the same sermon

About man's creation, and pointing
towards the requirements of life.

O' creature who has been equitably created and who
has been nurtured and looked after in the darkness of wombs with multiple curtains. You
were originated from the essence of clay (Qur'an, 23:12) and placed in a still place for a
known length (Qur'an, 77:21-22) and an ordained time. You used to move in the womb of your
mother as an embryo, neither responding to a call nor hearing any voice.

Then you were taken out from your place of stay to a
place you had not seen, and you were not acquainted with the means of awaiting its
benefits, or with who guided you to eke out your sustenance from the udder of your mother,
and, when your were in need, appraised you of the location of what you required or aimed
at. Alas! Certainly he who is unable to understand the qualities of a being with shape and
limbs is the more unable to understand the qualities of the Creator and the more remote
from appreciating Him through the limitations of creatures.
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Forward to Sermon 163.

Back to Sermon 161.

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