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.
