Foreword

Reward for the Monotheists and Gnostics

Divine Unity and‬‬ Negation of Anthropomorphism

The Definition of One, Divine Unity, and the Believer in Divine Unity

The Commentary of Chapter 112 the Unity [al-Tawhid]

The Meaning of Divine Unity and Divine Justice

The Mighty and High is Devoid of both Body and Image

The Blessed and Exalted is a Thing

What is Related Regarding the Vision

Omnipotence

Knowledge

Attributes of Essence and Attributes of Actions

The Commentary of verse 88 of Chapter 28 the Narrative [al-Qasas] Everything is perishable but He.

The Commentary of Verse 75 of Chapter 38 Sad O Iblis! What prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created with My Two Hands?

The Commentary of Verse 42 of Chapter 68 Qalam - On the Day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance

The Commentary of Verse 35 of Chapter 24 the Light [al-Nur]

The Commentary of Verse 67 of Chapter 9 the Repentance [al-Tawbah] They have forsaken Allah, so He has forsaken them.

The Commentary of Verse 67 of Chapter 39 the Companies [al-Zumar] And the whole Earth shall be in His Grip on the Day of Resurrection and the Heavens rolled up in his Right Hand.

The Commentary of Verse 15 of Chapter 83 the Defrauders [al-Mutaffifin] Nay! Most surely they shall on that day be debarred from their Lord.

The Commentary of Verse 22 of Chapter 89 the Daybreak [al-Fajr] And your Lord comes and (also) the angels in ranks.

The Commentary of Verse 210 of Chapter 2 the Cow [al-Baqarah] They do not wait aught but that Allah should come to them in the shadow of clouds along with the angels.

Meaning of Scoffing, Mockery, Planning and Deception of Allah

The Meaning of Allah’s Side

The Meaning of the Waistband

Meaning of the Eye, the Ear, and the Tongue of Allah

The Meaning of Allah’s Hand is Tied Up

The Meaning of His Pleasure and His Anger

The Meaning of Allah’s Breathing of Spirit And I breathed into him of My Sprit.

Negation of Space, Time, Stillness, Motion, Descending, Ascending, and Transference from Allah

The Names of Allah, the Exalted,‬‬ and the Difference between their Meanings and the Meaning of the‬‬ Names of Creation

What is the Qur’an?

The Meaning of “In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful”

The Explanation of‬‬ the Letters of the Alphabet.

The Explanation of the Letters of the Alphabet According to Their Numerical Value

The Explanation of the Words of the Calls to Prayer

The Commentary of Guidance, Misguidance, Direction, and Forsaking is from Allah, the Exalted

The Refutation of the Dualists & the Atheists

There is no‬‬ god but the One God

The‬‬ Remembrance of Allah’s Greatness, Mighty be His Glory

The Subtlety of Allah, the Blessed, the Exalted

The Least Required for Recognizing Diving Unity

He, the Mighty and High, in not Recognized, Except by Himself.

The Assertion of the Emergence of the Universe

The Tradition of Dhi`lib.

The Tradition of Subakht, the Jewish Man

The Meaning of “Glory be to Allah” [Subhan Allah]

The Meaning of Allah is the Greatest [Allahu Akbar]

The Meaning of the First and the Last

the Most Compassionate is Firm on the Empyrean.

His Empyrean was on the Water

The Empyrean and Its‬‬ Description

The Empyrean was Created in Quarters

The Meaning of `His Knowledge Extend over the Heavens and the Earth’

Allah made the Nature of the Creation upon Divine Unity

The Appearance [Al-Bada’]

The Will and the Intent

Capability

The Trial and the Test

Privilege and Adversity

The Negation of Determinism and Relinquishment

Predestination, Divine Decree, Trials, Means of Sustenance Rates, and Restricted Powers

Children and Allah’s Justice Concerning Them

Allah only does what is best for His servants

Command, Prohibition, Promise and Threat

Recognition, Explanation, Evidence, and Guidance

A Session of al-Ridha (AS‬‬) with Theologians from Among the Rhetoricians and Various‬‬ Religions about Unity in the presence of al-Ma`mun

A Session of al-Ridha (AS) with Sulayman al-Marwazi, the Theologian of Khurasan, in‬‬ the Presece of al-Ma`mun concerning the Subject of Divine Unity.

The Prohibition of Discussing, Debating, and Arguing about Allah

1 - حدثنا أبي رحمه الله، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن القاسم بن محمد، عن سليمان بن داود المنقري، عن حفص بن غياث، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام عن قول الله عز وجل: (وسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض) قال: علمه. 

1. My father (RA) said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of al-Qasim ibn Muhammad, on the authority of Sulayman ibn Dawud al-Minqari, on the authority of Hafs ibn Ghiyah that I asked Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) about the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High: His knowledge extends over the heaves and the earth.’ He replied, “His Knowledge.”

2 - حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه، قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام في قول الله عز وجل: ((وسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض) فقال: السماوات والأرض وما بينهما في الكرسي، والعرش هو العلم الذي لا يقدر أحد قدره. 

2. My father (RA) said: `Ali ib Ibrahim said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn Abu `Umayr, on the authority of `Abd Allah ibn Sinan that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) was asked to interpret the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High: His knowledge extends over the heaves and the earth.’ He (AS) said: “The heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, are in the Throne [al-kursi], and the Empyrean [al-`arsh] is the Knowledge (of Allah) over which no one has power.”

3 - حدثنا محمد بن الحسن بن أحمد بن الوليد رحمه الله، قال: حدثنا محمد بن الحسن الصفار، قال: حدثنا يعقوب بن يزيد، عن حماد بن عيسى، عن ربعي عن فضيل بن يسار، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام عن قول الله عز وجل: (وسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض) فقال: يا فضيل السماوات والأرض وكل شئ في الكرسي. 

3. Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid (RA) said: Muhammad ibn al-Hasan alSaffar said: Ya`qub ibn Yazid said, on the authority of Hammad ibn `Isa, on the authority of Rabi`I, on the authority of Fjudayl ibn Yasar that I asked Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) about the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High: His knowledge extends over the heaves and the earth.’ Consequently, he (AS) replied, “O Fudayl! The heavens and the earth and everything between them, are in the Throne.”

4 - حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار رحمه الله، عن أبيه، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحجال، عن ثعلبة بن ميمون، عن زرارة، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام عن قول الله عز وجل: (وسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض) السماوات و الأرض وسعن الكرسي، أم الكرسي وسع السماوات والأرض؟ فقال: بل الكرسي وسع السماوات والأرض والعرش  وكل شئ في الكرسي.

4. Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-`Attar (RA) said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Isa, on the authority of la-0hajjal, on the authority of Thaa`labah ibn Maymun, on the authority of Zurarah that I asked Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) about the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High His knowledge extends over the heaves and the earth: Are the heavens and the earth greater than the Throne, or is the Throne greater than the heavens and the earth? He replied, “Nay, the Throne is greater than the heavens, the earth, and the sky as the Throne encompasses everything.”

5 - حدثنا محمد بن الحسن بن أحمد بن الوليد رحمه الله قال: حدثنا الحسين ابن أبان، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عن فضالة، عن عبد الله بن بكير، عن زرارة، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام عن قول الله عز وجل: (وسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض) السماوات والأرض وسعن الكرسي، أم الكرسي وسع السماوات والأرض؟ فقال: إن كل شئ في الكرسي (١).  باب فطرة الله عز وجل الخلق على التوحيد 

5. Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid (RA) said: al-Hasan ibn Aban said, on the authority of al-Husayn ibn Sa`id, on the authority of Fadalah, on the authority of `Abd Allah ibn Bukayr, on the authority of Zurarah that I asked Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) about the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High His knowledge extends over the heaves and the earth: Are the heavens ad the earth greater than the Throne, or is the Throne greater than the heaves and the earth? He answered, “The Throne encompasses everything.”

Al-Tawḥīd

Book 2, Chapter 52