قَدِيمٌ بِلَا ابْتِدَاءٍ، دَائِمٌ بِلَا انْتِهَاءٍ.
He is without any beginning and remains forever without any end.
خَالِقٌ بِلَا حَاجَةٍ، رَازِقٌ بِلَا مُؤْنَةٍ.
He creates without need and provides sustenance without toil.
How the passages fit: The One without beginning or end does not create or provide to satisfy a deficiency. Creatures need their Creator; the Creator does not need them. This joins eternity to divine self-sufficiency.
Application: Provision satisfies the needs of creatures, yet supplying it neither exhausts nor burdens Allah. He has always possessed the attributes of perfection.
Limit of inference: The names Creator and Provider do not imply human-like labor, profit or need.