Hadith 18

(The books) ‘Al Tawheed’ and ‘Al Uyoon’ – From Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan, from Muhammad Bin Amro the scribe, from Muhammad Bin Ziyad Al Qulmuzy, from Muhammad Bin Abu Ziyad Al Jady, from Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Alawy, ‘From Al-Reza-asws from his-asws lengthy sermon. He-asws said: ‘The first worship of Allah-azwj is to recognise Him-azwj, and the origin of recognising Allah-azwj is His-azwj Tawheed (Oneness), and the system of the Tawheed of Allah-azwj is negating the descriptions from Him-azwj for testimony of the intellects. Surely every description and described is a created being, and testimony of every created being is that there is a Creator for it Who is neither with a description nor can He-azwj be described. And the testimony of every description is with the pairing, and the testimony of the pairing is with the occurrent, and the testimony of the occurrence is with the abstention from the pre-existence, the precented from the occurring’. Up to his-asws words: ‘The timings were preceded by His-azwj existence, and the non-existence and the beginning of His-azwj eternality’. Up to His-azwj words: ‘So He-azwj differentiated by it between ‘before’ and ‘after’ in order to be known that there is no ‘before’ for Him-azwj nor any ‘after’’. Up to his-asws words: ‘Informing with its timing that there is no time for its timing’. Up to his-asws words: ‘Meaning of the Lordship for Him-azwj is when there is no one being nourished, and reality of the Godhead is when there is no worshipper, and the meaning of Knower is when there is nothing to be known, and the meaning of the Creator is when there is no created being, and interpretation of the Hearing, and there is nothing being heard. It isn’t so that the meaning of (the word) Creator is deserving since He-azwj Created, nor is the meaning of ‘Innovator’ due to His-azwj Innovating the created beings. How? And He-azwj has not been absence since nor can you go near Him-azwj, nor can you veil Him-azwj, nor can He-azwj be timed as ‘When’, nor can a moment include Him-azwj, nor can you pair Him-azwj with (anything)’. Up to his-asws words: ‘So all what is in the creation cannot be found to be in its Creator, and all what is possible in it, is prevented from its Maker. The movement and the stillness do not flow upon Him-azwj. And how can it flow upon Him-azwj what He-azwj is its flower, or it returns to Him-azwj what He-azwj had Begun it? Then it would separate His-azwj Self and fragment His-azwj existence, and its meaning would not be prevented from the eternality’. Up to his-asws words: ‘There is no word of argument in an impossibility, nor any answer in the question, nor any reverence for Allah-azwj in its meaning, nor anything wrong in His-azwj Initiating the creation except with the prevention of the eternality that He-azwj be commended, and where there is no escape for Him-azwj that He-azwj Begins’ – up to the end of the sermon’’. [20]