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وَالسَّمْعُ وَهِيَ صِفَةٌ تَتَعَلَّقُ بِالْمَسْمُوعَاتِ
Hearing is an attribute related to things heard.

Affirming divine hearing (samʿ) is to affirm a perfect attribute, not to assign ears, eardrums, or a physical transmission system to God. Created hearing ordinarily depends on organs and environmental conditions; divine hearing is not constrained by these limitations.

Things heard (masmūʿāt) are the objects to which hearing is related. Their created or temporal status does not make divine hearing a new attribute, just as a created object of power does not make power itself originated.

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The attribute of hearing

Eternal Knowledge, Power, Life, Will and Their Relations

وَالسَّمْعُ وَهِيَ صِفَةٌ تَتَعَلَّقُ بِالْمَسْمُوعَاتِ
Hearing is an attribute related to things heard.

Affirming divine hearing (samʿ) is to affirm a perfect attribute, not to assign ears, eardrums, or a physical transmission system to God. Created hearing ordinarily depends on organs and environmental conditions; divine hearing is not constrained by these limitations.

Things heard (masmūʿāt) are the objects to which hearing is related. Their created or temporal status does not make divine hearing a new attribute, just as a created object of power does not make power itself originated.