Ar-Ra'd 9: Allah knows the seen and the unseen. Allah is Kabeer (the Greatest) and exalted.
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Allah knows the seen and the unseen. Allah is Kabeer (the Greatest) and exalted.
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Since Allah (swt) is aware of His creatures, He is aware of all His creatures, whether they see Him or not. He knows and sees their condition. Because He is the Creator and He has not created His creatures apart from His Essence.
Allah's greatness and sublimity is that He creates out of nothing and fulfills His will. Since none of the creatures among the creatures can possess this knowledge of Allah's creation, Allah is indeed very great and sublime. The words "very great" and "very great" are very small in comparison to Allah's attribute of Godhood. Since there are no other words for these words, we try to describe the greatness of Allah with these words.
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Surah Ar-Ra'd, verse 9: we have come to it. He knows the seen and the unseen; He is very great, exalted. He knows the seen and the unseen. For Allah there is nothing unseen. For Allah there is nothing unseen. I will explain now. When it says "the seen and the unseen", (?). The seen, that is, He knows what we see. We see the seen, don't we; He also knows what we see. And the unseen, for us, what we cannot see: for example, we cannot see Satan, the angels we cannot see, right? He knows these too. Allah Almighty knows them all. He is very great, exalted. Why does He know everything? Because whatever exists, from the atom to the globe, He created, from the atom to the globe.
Among the created things, those divided into particles, the dusts, the atoms of the dusts, even their nuclei within, He knows. Because they are all programmed by Allah with a program. He has programmed the worlds. Therefore, whether what we see or what we do not see, whether any particle of the universe, or everything there is up to the Throne of Allah, all of it is under our Lord's view. It is within His knowledge.
In this respect, since Allah is the Creator, the Creator, and since He is not detached from what He creates; for if Allah were detached from what He creates, living beings would groan and moan. And the non-living too, on their own: the order of this world would break down. Allah, who governs even these, who governs with His knowledge, will of course be magnificent and exalted. So what does it say? He is very great, exalted, it says. Since Allah Almighty is aware of what He creates, whether His creatures see it or not, He is informed of the created. He knows and sees their state. Because He is the Creator, and He did not create His creatures detached from His essence.
Allah's greatness and exaltedness is creating from nothing and creating by fulfilling His will. Since this creative knowledge of Allah no created being among the created can grasp, Allah is truly very exalted and very great. The words "very exalted" and "very great", beside Allah's attribute of being Allah, remain very small.
Since there are no other words to replace these, Allah's sublimity we try to make known only with these words, we have said.