1.1.5 Attributes of Allah: Living Hearing, Seeing

1.1.5allseeingallhearingThe Living

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah has the attribute of Life; He is the Living (al-hayy). He is perfect. He is always living and will never die. He does not sleep either. Everything is easy for Him. He never gets tired, so He never needs to rest.

The Hearing

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah has the attribute of Hearing; He is the Hearer (al-sami’). He does not hear with a body part the way created things do. Remember He is not like anything in His creation. He hears everything: loud sounds, quite sounds, secrets, bad words, colors, shapes, and everything there is. Let’s be careful of what we say. Allah does not like to hear evil things from us like lies and talking back to our parents.

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The Seeing

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah has the attribute of Seeing; He is the Seer (al-basir). He does not see with a body part the way created things do. Remember again, He is not like anything in His creation. He sees everything: small things, large things, sounds, thoughts, good acts, bad acts. He doesn’t need light for seeing. Let’s be careful of what we do. Allah does not like to see evil things from us like missing our prayers and hurting other people.

1.1.6 Attributes of Allah: Self-Sufficient, Knowing, Powerful and Has a Will

Allah is Self-Sufficient

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat means He does not need anything from anyone, but everyone needs Him. Allah created humans and Jinn to worship Him. But Allah does not need their prayers, they need to pray so that Allah will love them and accept them in Paradise.

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Allah is Knowing

Allah is Knowing[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah knows Everything. Small things, large things, secret things, public things, major things, minor things, Allah knows them all and He always knew them all. He knows who will go to Jannah because He knows what they will do in order to make them one of the people of Jannah. He always knew how everything would be. This information of what will happened up to the Day of Judgment is written in the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawh al-Mahfudh).

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Allah Has Power

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]e is Powerful. He is capable of doing anything that suits His Majesty. There are certain things Allah cannot do because those things have no meaning. For example, Allah cannot create another god because God is not created. The things Allah cannot do prove that Allah is not like anything or anyone in His creation. He is in fact the Greatest. Allah Akbar!

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Allah Has a Will

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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]henever Allah Wills something, that thing is created. If He wills for someone to be healthy, he will be healthy. He willed to create the universe, so the universe was created. We cannot will anything, unless Allah wills that thing to be. “You do not will unless Allah wills, the Lord of the Worlds.”

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