Hadith 95

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Khalid Al Tayalisi, from Safwan, from Ibn Muskan, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic never ceased to be our Lord‑azwj; and the Knowledge is His-azwj Self and (even though) there may be nothing to be known, and the Hearing is His-azwj Self and (even though) there may be nothing to be heard, and the Seeing is His-azwj Self and (even though) there may be nothing to be seen, and the Power is His-azwj Self and (even though) there may be nothing to be empowered upon. So when He-azwj Created the things, and it was the known (things), the Knowledge Occurred from Him-azwj upon the known, and the Hearing upon the heard, and the Seeing upon the seen, and the Power upon the empowered’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Allah-azwj did not cease to be moving’. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj is more Exalted from that. The movement is a quality created by the deed’. I said, ‘Allah-azwj did not cease to be Speaking’. He-asws said: ‘The speech is a created quality, it is not with the eternality. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic was (existed), and He-azwj did not Speak’’. [102]