IMAN AND ISLAM (part3)

As-Sifat adh-Dhatiyya of Allahu ta'ala are six: al-Wujud, existence: al-Qidam, being without beginning, and eternal in the past al-Baqa', being without end, and eternal in the future; aI-Wandiniyya, having no partner or match: al-Makhilafatu li •I-bawidith, being dissimilar to every creature in every respect, al-Qiyimu bi nafsihi, self-existence or being unneedy of anything for His existence No creature has any of these six attributes, nor any relation with them. They belong to Allahu ta'ala exclusively. Some 'ulama' said that al-Mukhfilafatu Ii 'l-hawadith and al-Wandaniyya were the same and that as-Sifat adh-Dhatiyya are five. See pages 13 and 24. *`* Khalid-i Bagdadi passed away in Damascus in 1247 [1826 A.D.]. out of nothing): that is, they may come into existence while they are nonexistent, and they came into existence while they had been nonexistent. The hadith ash-sharif, `Allahu ta'ala was existent, anything else did not exist; shows that this is true. A second evidence showing that the whole universe and all creatures are hadith is the fact that creatures are transforming and changing into one another all the time; whereas, anything qadim (without a beginning) should never change. Allahu ta'ala's Dhat (Person, Essence) and Attributes are qadim and never change.* The changes in creatures cannot he coming from the eternal past. They should have a beginning and come into existence from elements or substances, which must have been created out of nonexistence. Another evidence for the fact that the universe is mumkin, that is, it may come into being out of nonexistence, is that creatures, as we see, are hadith: that is, they come into existence out of nothing. There are two beings: the mumkin and the if only the mumkin existed, or if Wajib al-wujud wujud did not exist, nothing would exist.*** For this reason, the mumkin could not come into existence or go on being by itself. If some power had not affected it, it would have always remained in nonexistence and could not have come into existence. Since a mumkin could not