Symposium 14

More on Qualities of the Glorious Allah

The Omnipotent

Anwar: How about we move on to the next quality of the Glorious Allah, namely ‘the Omnipotent’?

Hasan: Gladly! Omnipotence is the ability of a doer to do something or to stop doing something. Omnipotent is the one who takes action and stops one whenever he wants so, with a sense and knowledge of what is good whether he takes that action or not.

Anwar: What are all these restrictions for?

Hasan: This is because we want to exclude the Almighty Allah from the state of acting without awareness,