Āyat al-Kursī (Qur’an 2:255) brings together divine life, self-subsistence, knowledge, dominion, and power in one connected statement. Its special quality is the breadth of fundamental truths about God articulated within a single verse without becoming a disconnected catalogue.
It opens: اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ
God—there is no deity but Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of all.
The attributes are mutually illuminating. Eternal life, sustaining power, and all-encompassing knowledge indicate that divinity belongs neither to a dependent being nor to one with bounded capacities.