LessonsEternal Divine Attributes: Knowledge, Power, Life and SpeechQuiz

صِدْقُ الْمُشْتَقِّ عَلَى الشَّيْءِ يَقْتَضِي ثُبُوتَ مَأْخَذِ الِاشْتِقَاقِ لَهُ
A genuinely applicable derivative predicate implies the basis from which it is derived.

The word ʿālim is related to knowledge, qādir to power, and ḥayy to life. In their genuine predicative use these words are not arbitrary sounds: they affirm the relevant perfection of the subject.

This reasoning concerns true attribution, not every figurative nickname or conventional title. The divine names cannot be reduced to honorific labels devoid of the meanings they signify.

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Derivative names and their underlying quality

Eternal Divine Attributes: Knowledge, Power, Life and Speech

صِدْقُ الْمُشْتَقِّ عَلَى الشَّيْءِ يَقْتَضِي ثُبُوتَ مَأْخَذِ الِاشْتِقَاقِ لَهُ
A genuinely applicable derivative predicate implies the basis from which it is derived.

The word ʿālim is related to knowledge, qādir to power, and ḥayy to life. In their genuine predicative use these words are not arbitrary sounds: they affirm the relevant perfection of the subject.

This reasoning concerns true attribution, not every figurative nickname or conventional title. The divine names cannot be reduced to honorific labels devoid of the meanings they signify.