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وَالْقُوَّةُ وَهِيَ بِمَعْنَى الْقُدْرَةِ
Strength here means power.

For creatures, quwwah may mean physical energy or a potential capacity awaiting exercise. Applied to God, it must not signify an embodied or merely potential ability that later becomes actual. It denotes complete divine power.

Different words in theological discourse do not always indicate distinct independently affirmed attributes. Consequently, “strength” here is understood through power and not through created bodily strength.

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Quwwah as a term for divine power

Eternal Knowledge, Power, Life, Will and Their Relations

وَالْقُوَّةُ وَهِيَ بِمَعْنَى الْقُدْرَةِ
Strength here means power.

For creatures, quwwah may mean physical energy or a potential capacity awaiting exercise. Applied to God, it must not signify an embodied or merely potential ability that later becomes actual. It denotes complete divine power.

Different words in theological discourse do not always indicate distinct independently affirmed attributes. Consequently, “strength” here is understood through power and not through created bodily strength.