Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · Attributes of Essence and Attributes of Actions
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17 - حدثنا الحسين بن أحمد بن إدريس رضي الله عنه، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن عبد الجبار، عن صفوان بن يحيى، قال: قلت لأبي الحسن عليه السلام: أخبرني عن الإرادة من الله ومن المخلوق، قال: فقال: الإرادة من المخلوق الضمير وما يبدو له بعد ذلك من الفعل، وأما من الله عز وجل فإرادته إحداثه لا غير ذلك لأنه لا يروي، ولا يهم، ولا يتفكر، وهذه الصفات منفية عنه، وهي من صفات الخلق، فإرادة الله هي الفعل لا غير ذلك يقول له: كن فيكون، بلا لفظ ولا نطق بلسان ولا همة ولا تفكر، ولا كيف لذلك كما أنه بلا كيف .
17.Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Idris (RA) said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Jabbar, on the authority of Safwan ibn Yahya that I enquired from Abu al-Hasan al-Kadhim (AS): “Inform me about the Will. Is it a part of Allah or is it of the Creation? Hence, he (AS) answered, The will is part of the created conscience, and it manifest itself in action. As for Will of Allah, the Mighty and High, then it is His Making [ihdath] and none other than that because He does not reflect, does not imagine, and does not think. These attributes cannot be applied to Him as they are attributes of creation. Thus, Allah’s Will is action and nothing else. He says to it: “Be and it is,” without a word or speech expressed by tongue, by imagination or by thought. His Will is expressed without form in the same way that He is without form.
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