Abu Fauzi
Junior Member
As-Salaam alaikum,
"Laysa ka-mithlihi shay'an, wa huwa Sami'un 'l-basir - - There is nothing comparable to Him, and He is all-hearing, all-seeing" (42:11).
The first part of this ayat/verse (There is nothing comparable to Him) describes the sheer incomparability of Allah that He has divulge and talked about.
And the latter part of the verse (and He is all hearing, all seeing) completes and perfects that incomparability. Its clarification is this :
Since the faculties of "hearing" and "seeing" abide in the cosmos, in man, it may give the illusion that these human attributes (of hearing and seeing) are similar to Allah's attributes of 'hearing and seeing'.
To banish this idea/understanding, Allah Ta'ala denied the faculties of hearing and seeing in the created beings, so that the one who hears and who sees is Allah Himself. The hearing and seeing faculties created in the created beings cannot complete or perfect the ACTS of hearing and sering by themselves.
In the same way that Allah has created the 2 faculties of hearing and seeing in man, in that same way He also creates the acts of hearing and seeing that man performs. Man hears and sees by the power of Allah Ta'ala. Thus, since Allah established an effectivity (ta'thir) in created beings, then that effectivity in them would also be a created thing.. Note this well.
"Laysa ka-mithlihi shay'an, wa huwa Sami'un 'l-basir - - There is nothing comparable to Him, and He is all-hearing, all-seeing" (42:11).
The first part of this ayat/verse (There is nothing comparable to Him) describes the sheer incomparability of Allah that He has divulge and talked about.
And the latter part of the verse (and He is all hearing, all seeing) completes and perfects that incomparability. Its clarification is this :
Since the faculties of "hearing" and "seeing" abide in the cosmos, in man, it may give the illusion that these human attributes (of hearing and seeing) are similar to Allah's attributes of 'hearing and seeing'.
To banish this idea/understanding, Allah Ta'ala denied the faculties of hearing and seeing in the created beings, so that the one who hears and who sees is Allah Himself. The hearing and seeing faculties created in the created beings cannot complete or perfect the ACTS of hearing and sering by themselves.
In the same way that Allah has created the 2 faculties of hearing and seeing in man, in that same way He also creates the acts of hearing and seeing that man performs. Man hears and sees by the power of Allah Ta'ala. Thus, since Allah established an effectivity (ta'thir) in created beings, then that effectivity in them would also be a created thing.. Note this well.