Allah and His Attributes

Imam Ali (AS) said, Everyone who is called ‘one other than Allah, the Glorified, is little; and every honoured one other than Him is inferior; and every strong one other than Him is weak; and every master other than Him is a slave; and every knower other than Him is a learner; and every capable one other than Him is sometimes able and other times unable.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Whoever contemplates about the essence of Allah, apostatizes.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Allah, Great is His Majesty, is not perceived by the eyes through the sense of sight, rather He is perceived by the hearts though the realities of faith.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Allah, the Glorified, did not create the creation on account of loneliness, nor did He command them [to obey Him] in order to gain anything.

Imam Ali (AS) said, About the unity of Allah, the Exalted, he said: The depths of understanding cannot perceive Him and the heights of [intellectual] endeavours cannot reach Him.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Belief in the oneness of Allah enlivens the soul.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Belief that Allah is one means that you should not [try to] imagine [Him].

Imam Ali (AS) said, Whoever believes in one God is saved.

Imam Ali (AS) said, He (‘a) said about the oneness of Allah: He is near everything but not attached, far from everything but not separate.

Imam Ali (AS) said, He (‘a) said about the oneness of Allah, the Glorified: He is neither inside things nor outside them.

Imam Ali (AS) said, If your Lord had a partner, then his prophets would [also] have come to you.

Imam Ali (AS) said, One who believes in the oneness of Allah, the Glorified, does not compare Him to the creation.

Imam Ali (AS) said, He, the Glorified, was not perceived by the intellects and thus described, rather, He, the Exalted, described himself before the describers [attempted to describe Him].

Imam Ali (AS) said, Allah, the Glorified, did not give the intellect knowledge about the limits of His qualities, yet He did not prevent it from gaining the necessary understanding of Him.

Imam Ali (AS) said, He, the Glorified, can neither be confined in the intellect, thereby changing through the process of thought [or imagination], nor in the shackles of the mind, thereby becoming limited and the object of alteration.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Allah has not settled in anything so that it be said He exists therein, nor is He separated from anything so that it is said He is detached from it.