ABSTRACT
The Divine attributes which are to be believed of the necessary Being are fully established by rational proof in the foregoing. The sacred law of Islam, and earlier holy laws, corroborated them in the mission and preaching of the Prophet Muhammad and the preceding prophets. Revelation affirms the attribute of sight, that is, the faculty of visual awareness, and the attribute of hearing, the power of aural awareness. For, as the Qur’an has it ‘He is the hearer, the seer.’ But we must believe that His awareness is not by any instrument, or outward sense, or by the pupil of an eye, or any seeing sense such as we possess. The Qur’an and earlier Scriptures confine themselves to directing attention to the creator’s existence and to His perfect attributes, as these may be known from the contemplation of the created world. As for the nature of His attributes and what they signify, it is beyond our province to discuss.
