Where does Allah come from?

Sources

• ✓ 42:11 · Ash-Shura

  42:11 · Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

  فَاطِرُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًۭا وَمِنَ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ أَزْوَٰجًۭا ۖ يَذْرَؤُكُمْ فِيهِ ۚ لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِۦ شَىْءٌۭ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْبَصِيرُ

  The Creator of the heavens and the earth. He hath made for you pairs of yourselves, and of the cattle also pairs, whereby He multiplieth you. Naught is as His likeness; and He is the Hearer, the Seer.

• ✓ Al-Kafi 3:71

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  Al-Kafi · Book 3, Hadith 71

  I came to al-Ridha (peace be upon him) asking about Tawhid (Divine Unity). He dictated to me: 'Praise be to Allah, the Originator of things by creation and the Initiator of them by His power, not from anything so that invention fails, and not due to cause that innovation be valid. He created what He wished however He wished, absolutely unique in this, to manifest His wisdom and the reality of His Lordship. The intellects cannot grasp Him, neither do imaginations reach Him, nor can the eyes perceive Him nor does any measure encompass Him. Expression and perception tire before Him. He is hidden without veil and concealed without cover; He is known without sight, described without shape, and characterized without body. There is no god but Allah, the Great, the Exalted. — OR — The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: A non-Arab among my nation recites the Qur’an in his foreign tongue, yet the angels raise it in Arabic. — OR — I was present at the death of one of the two sons of Sabor, who were known for their piety and humility. One of them, I believe it was Zakariya ibn Sabor, fell ill. I visited him at his death, and he stretched out his hand and said, 'My hand has turned white, O Ali.' Then I went to Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) with Muhammad ibn Muslim. When I left his presence, I thought Muhammad would inform him of the news of the man. A messenger followed me back, so I returned to him. He said, 'Tell me about this man whom you attended at death. What did you hear him say?' I said, 'He stretched out his hand and said, "My hand has become white, O Ali."' Abu Abdullah said, 'By Allah, he saw it; by Allah, he saw it; by Allah, he saw it.' — OR — I asked about the verse: 'And whoever enters it shall be safe.' He said: If a thief steals outside Mecca or commits a crime against himself and then flees to Mecca, he is not caught while in the sanctuary until he leaves it. However, he is prevented from the market, neither bought from nor associated with, until he leaves; then he is caught. If he commits the crime inside the sanctuary, he is apprehended and punished there. — OR — Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) said: "Marry a large-eyed, dark-complexioned, physically weak, and thick-set woman. If you dislike her, the dowry is my responsibility." — OR — The manumission granted under compulsion is not to be considered valid manumission. — OR — I asked him where is the place the one who commits fornication with a close relative is struck by the sword? He said: He is struck on the neck, or he said: on the throat.

• ✓ Al-Kafi 3:122

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  Al-Kafi · Book 3, Hadith 122

  From Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Asim ibn Humayd from Abu Basir from Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him): Whoever claims that God is from something, or in something, or over something has disbelieved. I said: Explain for me. He said: I mean by “from something” possession of something or holding it, or from something that preceded Him. In another narration: Whoever claims God is from something makes Him created. Whoever claims He is in something confines Him. Whoever claims He is on something makes Him carried. This is regarding God's statement: 'And He is the one who is a god in the heaven and a god on the earth.' — OR — Surah Al-Mulk is the protector; it prevents from the torment of the grave. It is written in the Torah as Surah Al-Mulk. Whoever recites it at night has multiplied good deeds, purified himself, and will not be recorded among the heedless. I perform ruku’ with it after the ‘Isha prayer while sitting. Indeed, my father (peace be upon him) used to recite it by day and night. Whoever recites it, when the Denier and the Denier of the Hereafter approach him from beneath his two feet, will say: “You two have no way to what is before me.” This servant used to stand to me reading Surah Al-Mulk every day and night. When they came to him from under his belly, he said to them: “You have no access to what is before me.” When they came from his tongue, they said the same. This servant used to recite Surah Al-Mulk daily and nightly. — OR — He said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: There is nothing better among your clothes than white, so clothe your dead in it. — OR — He was asked about a tree whose root is inside the sanctuary but its branches extend outside where a man shot a bird perched on one of the branches and struck it. He said, "The penalty applies if its root is inside the sanctuary." — OR — He said that marrying a Jewish or Christian woman is better — or he said it is more excellent — than marrying a Nāsib or a Nāsibiyyah. — OR — Regarding a woman who deflowered a slave girl with her hand, he said: She must pay her dowry and be flogged eighty lashes.