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50 Essential Islamic Beliefs- Adapted From Shaykh al-Islām Imām Bājūrī's Epistle

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The following are the 20 Attributes of Affirmation.
It is necessary to affirm the following attributes:

1. Wujūd –

Existence. That Allāhﷻ exists.

2. Qidam –

Pre-eternity. Allāh ﷻhas always existed without a beginning.

3. Baqā’a –

Eternal, endless existence. Allāh shall exist forever without an end.

4. Mukhālafatu li’l Ĥawādith –

He is unlike anything else. Everything else is an accident*; brought into
existence by the Creator (Allāh Himself) and was previously non-existent. The Attributes of Allāh ﷻare also unlike anything else.

*[Accident – “any
entity or event contingent upon the existence of something else”.]

5. Qiyām bi’n Nafs –

Self-subsisting. He exists by Himself, without any help or dependence on
anything else.

6. Waĥdāniyyah –

Absolute Oneness. He is One and alone in His Self, His Attributes and His Actions.

7. Qudrah –

Divine Power that encompasses all
possibilities.

8. Irādah –

His Divine Will ordains things to exist or not exist. His Will is Absolutely Free from being influenced or compelled.

9. Ílm –

Divine Knowledge. He Knows everything and His Knowledge encompasses everything. Nothing is
unknown to Him.

10. Ĥayāh –

Life [unlike the lives of everything else]. He Lives without the possibility of death; everything shall die or perish, except Him. He has always existed without a beginning and shall exist eternally.

11. Samaá –

Hearing. He Hears everything, but His
Hearing is transcendent; that is, without organs such as ears, and unlike the hearing of creation.

12. Başar –

Sight. He Sees everything, but His Seeing is transcendent; that is, without organs such as eyes, and unlike the seeing of creation.

13. Kalām –

Speech. His Divine speech is pre-eternal, uncreated and transcendent from letters and sounds.

14. Qādir –

He is The Powerful.

15. Murīd –

He Wills

16. Áālim –

He is the Knower.

17. Ĥayy –

He is the Living

18. Samīý –

He is the Hearer.

19. Başīr –

He is the Seer.

20. Mutakallim –

He is the Speaker (of Divine Speech).

The opposite of the above, are the 20 Attributes of Negation.
It is necessary to negate the following
attributes for Allāhﷻ.

21. Ádam –

Non-existence, nihility. It is impossible that Allāh ﷻwould cease to exist.

22. Ĥudūth –

Being an accident. That is, something
which did not previously exist and came into existence at some point in time.

RESUMED

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