Ar-Ra'd (The Thunder)

Verse 9

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    9. “He knows the unseen and the seen, He is the Great, the Most High.”

    The seen and the unseen is an issue involved only in the finite man whose five senses are even more limited than those of many animals. However, such a matter does not sound meaningful for Allah Who is the Creator of the world of unseen and that of the seen.

    The verse says:

    “He knows the unseen and the seen, He is the Great, the Most High.”

    Imam Sadiq (as) has declared on the first phrase of the above verse that:

    The unseen signifies what has not existed and /šah adat/ (seen) signifies what has existed already.1

    In the meantime, Allah (s.w.t.) is superior in every aspect of perfection and is cleared of whatever default and defect there might be.

    Footnotes

    1. Tafsir-i-Burhan. ↩