A few of the many verses of the Qur'an that require metaphysical understandings about God are:
- And His is the loftiest likeness in the heavens and the earth. (30:27)
- And He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows our secrets, and what you publish. (6:3)
- He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward. He has knowledge of everything. (57:3)
- Allah is One and Absolute. (112:1-2)
- This is a scripture that We have revealed unto thee, full of blessings, that they may ponder its revelations, and that men of understanding may reflect. (38:29)
"God is not inside things in the sense of physical penetration and is not outside them in the sense of physical exclusion. Times do not keep company with Him, and implements do not help Him. His Being precedes times. His Existence precedes non-existence and His eternity precedes beginning. By His creating the senses it is known that He has no senses. By the contraries in various matters it is known that He has no contrary, and by the similarity between things it is known that there is nothing similar to Him. He has made light the contrary of darkness, brightness that of gloom, dryness that of moisture and heat that of cold. He produces affection among inimical things." (Sermon 186)
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