LessonsDivine Speech: Eternal Attribute, Inner Speech and Its RelationsQuiz

وَهُوَ أَيِ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مُتَكَلِّمٌ بِكَلَامٍ هُوَ صِفَةٌ لَهُ
God is a speaker by speech that is His attribute.

Mutakallim is a derived active designation. Predicating such a description normally affirms its relevant underlying meaning of the subject. Here divine speech is not reduced merely to the creation of sounds in another creature.

Objection: would creating speech in something else suffice to make God a speaker? The reply distinguishes an attribute subsisting in a subject from an effect produced elsewhere.

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The predicate mutakallim and its basis

Divine Speech: Eternal Attribute, Inner Speech and Its Relations

وَهُوَ أَيِ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مُتَكَلِّمٌ بِكَلَامٍ هُوَ صِفَةٌ لَهُ
God is a speaker by speech that is His attribute.

Mutakallim is a derived active designation. Predicating such a description normally affirms its relevant underlying meaning of the subject. Here divine speech is not reduced merely to the creation of sounds in another creature.

Objection: would creating speech in something else suffice to make God a speaker? The reply distinguishes an attribute subsisting in a subject from an effect produced elsewhere.