A Moslem seeker after God : $b showing Islam at its best in the life and teaching of al-Ghazali, mystic and theologian of the eleventh century
Al-Ghazali · en
“We witness that He is living, powerful, commanding,
conquering; inadequacy and weakness befall Him not; slumber
seizes Him not, nor sleep. Passing away does not happen to
Him, nor death. He is Lord of the Worlds, the Visible and the
Invisible, that of Force and that of Might; He possesses Rule
and Conquest and Creation and Command; the heavens are rolled
in His right hand and the created things are overcome in His
grasp; He is separate in creating and inventing; He is one in
bringing into existence and innovating; He created the creation
and their works and decreed their sustenance and their terms of
life; not a decreed thing escapes His grasp and the mutations
of things are not distant from His power; the things which He
hath decreed cannot be reckoned and the things which He knoweth
have no end.
“We witness that He knoweth all the things that can be known,
comprehending that which happeneth from the bounds of the earth
unto the topmost heavens; no grain in the earth or the heavens
is distant from His knowledge. Yea, He knows the creeping of
the black ant upon the rugged rock in a dark night, and He
perceives the movement of the mote in the midst of the air; He
knows the secret and the concealed and has knowledge of the
suggestions of the minds and the movements of the thoughts and
the concealed things of the inmost parts, by a knowledge which
is prior from eternity; He has not ceased to be describable by
it, from the ages of the ages, not by a knowledge which renews
itself and arises in His essence by arrival and removal.