1259 - حَيٌ‏

1259. LIVING (OMNIPRESENT)

(اللَّهُ لا إلهَ إلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ) .¹

“Allah – there is no god except Him – is the Living One, the Self-subsisting.”²

4128.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : إنَّ اللَّهَ عِلمٌ لا جَهلَ فيهِ ، حَياةٌ لا مَوتَ فيهِ ، نورٌ لا ظُلمَةَ فيهِ .³

4128.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Verily Allah is all knowledge with no ignorance about Him, He is all Life without any death around Him, and all Light with no darkness about Him.’⁴

4129.الإمامُ الكاظمُ عليه السلام : كانَ اللَّهُ حَيّاً بِلا حَياةٍ حادِثَةٍ ... بَل حَيٌّ لِنَفسِهِ .⁵

4129.Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘Allah is Omnipresent without any external source of life … rather He lives through Himself [is Self-existent].’⁶

1258 - أزَلِيٌّ وأبَدِيٌ‏

1258. ETERNAL AND EVERLASTING

4124.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : الحَمدُ للَّهِ‏ِ الأوَّلِ قَبلَ كُلِّ أوَّلٍ ، والآخِرِ بَعدَ كُلِّ آخِرٍ ، وبِأوَّلِيَّتِهِ وَجَبَ أن لا أوَّلَ لَهُ ، وبآخِرِيَّتِهِ وَجَبَ أن لا آخِرَ لَهُ .¹

4124.Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Praise be to Allah, the First before every first, and the Last after every last, and His Firstness necessitates that there is no beginning to Him, and His Lastness necessitates that there is no end to Him.’²

4125.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : لا يَزولُ أبَداً ولَم يَزَلْ ، أوَّلٌ قَبلَ الأشياءِ بِلا أوَّلِيَّةٍ ، وآخِرٌ بَعدَ الأشياءِ بِلا نِهايَةٍ .³

4125.Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He never ceases to exist and will always be, the First before all things without a beginning, and the Last after all things without an end.’⁴

4126.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - وقَد سَألَهُ رَجُلٌ يَهودِيٌّ : مَتى‏ كانَ رَبُّنا عَزَّوجلَّ ؟ - : يا يَهودِيُّ ، (ما كانَ) لَم يَكُنْ رَبُّنا فكانَ ، وإنَّما يُقالُ : «مَتى‏ كانَ» لِشَي‏ءٍ لَم يَكُنْ فكانَ ، هُوَ كائنٌ بِلا كَينونَةِ كائنٍ لَم يَزَلْ لَيسَ لَهُ قَبلٌ ، هُوَ قَبلَ القَبلِ ، وقَبلَ الغايَةِ ، انقَطَعَتْ عَنهُ الغاياتُ ، فهُوَ غايَةُ كُلِّ غايَةٍ .⁵

4126. Imam Ali (AS) was once asked by a Jew, ‘When did our Lord, Mighty and Exalted, come to be?’, to which he replied, ‘O Jew, It is not that our Lord was not and then came to be, for the question ‘When did x come to be?’ is posed regarding something that is not there and then comes to be. He exists without coming into being; He is ever existing having nothing before Him. He is before ‘before’ itself, before any limit. Limits do not apply to Him for He is the ultimate limit of all limits.’⁶

4127.الإمامُ الباقرُ عليه السلام : إنَّ اللَّهَ تَبارَكَ وتَعالى‏ كانَ ولا شَي‏ءَ غَيرُهُ ، نوراً لا ظَلامَ فيهِ ، وصادِقاً لا كِذبَ فيهِ ، وعالِماً لا جَهلَ فيهِ، وحَيّاً لا مَوتَ فيهِ ، وكذلِكَ هُوَ اليَومُ ، وكذلِكَ لا يَزالُ أبَداً .⁷

4127.Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Verily Allah, Blessed and most High, existed when nothing else did, He is absolute light with no darkness, truthful with no falsehood about Him, all-knowing with no ignorance about Him, ever-living with no death about Him, and He is such today, and thus will He remain forever.’⁸