{"id":1530,"date":"2014-04-26T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2015-01-04T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T22:02:10","slug":"god-is-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"God is Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/God-is-Eternal.pdf\">Download .pdf<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<h2>God is Eternal<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Arabic words used to denote eternality in the following verses of the Qur\u2019an are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>al-\u2018awwal<\/i>, which means \u201cthe first without beginning\u201d<\/li>\n<li><i>al-\u2018akhir<\/i>, which means \u201cthe everlasting\u201d<\/li>\n<li><i>al-hayy<\/i>, which means \u201cthe ever-living\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3><i>Al-\u2018Awwal &amp; Al-\u2018Akhir<\/i><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Hadid-Chapter-57-Verse-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1535\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Hadid-Chapter-57-Verse-3-1024x75.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Hadid Chapter 57 Verse 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>He is the First and the Last<\/i><\/b><i>, the Most High and the Most Near. And He is the All-Knower of everything.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><i>Al-Hayy<\/i><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Baqarah-Chapter-2-Verse-2552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1537\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Baqarah-Chapter-2-Verse-2552-1024x317.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2 Verse 255\" width=\"640\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Allah [swt]! None has the right to be worshipped, but He, <\/i><b><i>the Ever-Living<\/i><\/b><i>, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them in this world and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His r footstool extends over the heavens and the earth and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Imran-Chapter-3-Verse-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1540\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Imran-Chapter-3-Verse-2-1024x60.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-'Imran Chapter 3 Verse 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Allah [swt]! None has the right to be worshipped but He, <\/i><b><i>the Ever Living<\/i><\/b><i>, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Ta-Ha-Chapter-20-Verse-111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Ta-Ha-Chapter-20-Verse-111-1024x76.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Ta Ha Chapter 20 Verse 111\" width=\"642\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/> <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And [all] faces shall be humbled before <\/i><b><i>the Ever Living<\/i><\/b><i>, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. And he who carried [a burden of] wrongdoing will be indeed a complete failure [on that Day.]<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Furqan-Chapter-25-Verse-58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Furqan-Chapter-25-Verse-58-1024x148.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Furqan Chapter 25 Verse 58\" width=\"642\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>And put your trust [O Muhammad (saws)] in <\/i><b><i>the Ever-Living<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><i>One Who dies not and glorify His Praises and Sufficient is He as the All-Knower of the sins of His slaves.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Ghafir-Chapter-40-Verse-65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1546\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Ghafir-Chapter-40-Verse-65-1024x65.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Ghafir Chapter 40 Verse 65\" width=\"639\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>He is <\/i><b><i>the Ever-Living<\/i><\/b><i>, none has the right to be worshipped but He; so invoke Him making your worship pure for Him Alone. All the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Qur\u2019an confirms the rationally derived attribute of God &#8211; eternality.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>God is timeless-eternal<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Anbiya-Chapter-21-Verse-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1548\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Anbiya-Chapter-21-Verse-33-1024x81.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Anbiya' Chapter 21 Verse 33\" width=\"635\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And He [God] it is Who has created the night and the day<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><i>and the sun and the moon each in an orbit floating.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God created the night and the day.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Isra-Chapter-17-Verse-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1550\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Isra-Chapter-17-Verse-12-1024x165.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Isra' Chapter 17 Verse 12\" width=\"637\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>And We have appointed the night and the day<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><i>as two signs. Then We have obliterated the sign of the night[with darkness] while We have made the sign of the day illuminating that you may seek bounty from your Lord and <\/i><b><i>that you may know the number of years<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><i>and the reckoning. And We have explained everything with full explanation.<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God created the night and the day so that we may know the time, <i>the number of years<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>God, therefore, created time, which He transcends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Jathiyah-Chapter-45-Verse-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1553\" src=\"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Surah-Al-Jathiyah-Chapter-45-Verse-24-1024x325.jpg\" alt=\"Surah Al-Jathiyah Chapter 45 Verse 24\" width=\"640\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>And they say, \u201cThere is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live <\/i><b><i>and<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><b><i>nothing destroys us except time<\/i><\/b><i>. And they have no knowledge of it: they only conjecture. And when Our Clear Verses are recite to them, their argument is no other that that they say, \u201cBring back our [dead] fathers if you are truthful!\u201d Say [to them], \u201c<\/i><b><i>Allah<\/i><\/b><i> [swt] <\/i><i>gives you life <\/i><b><i>then causes you to die<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i><i>then He will assemble you on the Day of Resurrection about which there is no doubt. But most of mankind know not.\u201d<\/i><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn9\">[9]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is God, not time, Who destroys mankind. It is He, not time, that causes mankind to die.<\/p>\n<p>The Qur\u2019an confirms the rationally derived attribute of God \u2013 timeless eternality.<\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Surah Al-Hadid Chapter 57 Verse 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2 Verse 255<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Surah Al-\u2018Imran Chapter 3 Verse 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> Surah Ta Ha Chapter 20 Verse 111<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Surah Al-Furqan Chapter 25 Verse 58<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> Surah Ghafir Chapter 40 Verse 65<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a> Surah Al-Anbiya\u2019 Chapter 21 Verse 33<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> Surah Al-Isra\u2019 Chapter 17 Verse 12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a> Surah Al-Jathiyah Chapter 45 Verse 24<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download .pdf God is Eternal The Arabic words used to denote eternality in the following verses of the Qur\u2019an are: al-\u2018awwal, which means \u201cthe first without beginning\u201d al-\u2018akhir, which means<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-islam.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}