Arif-Attributes

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CONCERNING THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

Attributes are intrinsic (relating to the Nature) and Names descriptive(to the Aspect of the being described).

The Attributes of God are from one point themselves the Nature of God, and are contrary to it from another.

They are themselves the Nature of God – that where there is no existence save His Nature, His Attributes must of necessity be His Nature also.

They are contrary – That as things understood are necessarily various, the names used to express them must be various too, and must imply distinctions of meaning and idea. But all distinction and divisibility is contrary to the Nature of God.

The names applied to God, of Living, Eternal, Author or Disposer, and Omnipotent, imply His Eternal and Abiding Nature; Such expressions therefore are the names of the actual names, and are called Positive Attributes.

These names are called the four pillars of Divinity. Such names however as The Exalter and Debaser, The Giver of Life and Death, refer to attendant powers, and are called Relative Attributes.

Lastly, such names as The Blameless, The Holy One, The Independent One, relate to the absence of imperfection, and are hence called Negative Attributes.

the name Allah itself  which comprises all The name the attributes of His Eternal and Abiding Nature, for all the other names can be used to qualify it. All these names collectively or individually indicate One and the same God. The name Allah is abbreviated from Al-Iláh, “the God” par excellence.

CONCERNING THE WORKS OF GOD, PHYSICALLY CONSIDERED.

THE Works of God are of two kinds, visible and invisible

The Perceived World is also called The Material, Visible, Created, and Lower World. The material world may be described in detail, but of the spiritual world we must be content with a mere outline, for none but those who have gone hence, and entered into the spiritual life, can know the condition thereof:

The Conceived World is spoken of as the Invisible, Spiritual, or Future World, and the World of Command

There are two classes of beings in the Invisible World,

1.Those whose existence is revealed in inspiration (Emanations and Agencies)

Emanations are what are addressed in the words of Mohammed, in the majesty of God, in His Glory which was before the world began.

Agencies are, as it were, the door-keepers of Divinity, and the means by which God’s bounty is vouchsafed to man. The head and chief of them is Mohammed(saws).The Holy Spirit, or Gabriel, the last of this class of agencies, being the actual and intermediate agent of intercourse between God and man.

2.Those who make their existence felt .( Agents and Powers)

Agents are the presiding genii, or personified laws of animal, vegetable and mineral production.The human soul, though compounded both of the material and the immaterial, is reckoned amongst this class. It is the masterpiece of creation, and the whole material world is placed under its control.

The Powers are the Genii and Devils. They are created of fire, and constitute the lower order of beings in the invisible world. Some of them have a certain power over the race of man granted to them, but are rebellious against the Most High; of these Iblís is the Head and Chief. Others, again, although capable of harm, are subservient to the will of God.

The material world is also of two kinds, heavenly and earthly. The heavenly are the Throne and the Seat of God (or the Highest Heavens), the Seven Inferior Heavens, the Firmament and the Stars. The Earthly are the Face of the Earth, the Elements, Signs from on high (as thunder, lightning and rain), Compound Bodies (as minerals, vegetables and animals), the Sea, and other Works of God without end.

When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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