LessonsDivine Speech: Eternal Attribute, Inner Speech and Its RelationsQuiz

إِنَّهُ صِفَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ
It is one attribute.

While divine speech is one eternal attribute, its diverse relations to command, prohibition, and report do not create many originated parts within it. Likewise, knowledge concerns many known things without becoming a separate attribute for each individual object of knowledge.

Relations and attributions (taʿalluqāt and iḍāfāt) describe the different respects in which a single attribute is considered in relation to its objects. Multiplicity in objects or relations is not the creation of new attributes within the divine essence.

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One attribute and multiple relations

Divine Speech: Eternal Attribute, Inner Speech and Its Relations

إِنَّهُ صِفَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ
It is one attribute.

While divine speech is one eternal attribute, its diverse relations to command, prohibition, and report do not create many originated parts within it. Likewise, knowledge concerns many known things without becoming a separate attribute for each individual object of knowledge.

Relations and attributions (taʿalluqāt and iḍāfāt) describe the different respects in which a single attribute is considered in relation to its objects. Multiplicity in objects or relations is not the creation of new attributes within the divine essence.