What you must believe about your Creator - Kalamullah.Com

So, three Attributes have been affirmed for Allah (i) Power,(ii) Will and (iii) Knowledge and these three cannot existexcept with life and therefore they affirm that Allah is Living.A living would be hearing, seeing and speaking which areattributes of perfection or a living would be blind, deaf anddumb which are attributes of deficiency. So, (they say) it isobligatory to affirm the attribute of perfection for the Living.So, these are their logical proofs based upon which they affirm sevenAttributes for Allah.If one of them is asked to affirm the attribute of Mercy for Allah, herefuses saying, “I do not affirm Mercy for Allah because I explain it asI believe. I say, Mercy is the Will of doing good, or it is doing gooditself." and therefore he does not understand Mercy as an Attribute(of Allah).But we say, This (understanding/explanation) is wrong. (Moreover,)We can rationally prove the Mercy (of Allah) through the effects ofAllah's Mercy that we witness (in the world). Blessings (of Allah forHis creatures) that cannot be enumerated are due to the Mercy (ofAllah). Cruelty from which we are protected is also due to the Mercy(of Allah). These blessings prove the Attribute of Mercy (for Allah).The proof of blessings for affirming the Mercy of Allah is strongerthan the proof of choice for affirming the Will of Allah because theformer is known by both the common and the learned. Despite this,they deny the Attribute of Mercy and affirm the Attribute of Will.From this instance, it becomes known that whosoever forsakes thepath of the Salaf, he is in constant decline because there is noharmony in falsehood. "Do they not consider the Qur'an carefully?Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found- 48 -