Hadith 84

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisaas’ –
‘One day Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman said to Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws, ‘Where was your-asws Lord‑azwj when there was neither any built sky nor a spread-out earth? ’
He-asws said: ‘He-azwj was a Noor (Light) in a Noor, and a Noor upon a Noor. He-azwj Created hazy water from that Noor. He-azwj Created darkness from that water, so His-azwj Throne was upon that darkness’. He said, ‘But rather I asked you-asws about the place’. He-asws said: ‘All what you say, ‘where’, so where, it is the place’. He said, ‘You-asws described, I have found it to be so. But rather, I asked you-asws about the place, the existing, the well-known’. He-asws said: ‘It was in His-azwj Knowledge for His‑azwj Knowledge. The knowledge of the scholars is deficient in the Presence of His-azwj Knowledge’. He said, ‘But rather, I asked you-asws about the place’. He-asws said: ‘O obstinate one! Haven’t I-asws answered you that it was in His-azwj Knowledge for His-azwj Knowledge, so the knowledge of the scholars is deficient in the Presence of His-azwj Knowledge? ’’[91]