God’s Most Well-Known Attributes

Some of God’s well-known positive attributes are as follows:
1. God is omniscient (al-’Alim)):He knows everything.
2.God is omnipotent (al-Qadir)): He has power over all things. 
3.God is living (al-Hayy) Life is the quality that enables knowledge and power.
4.God is eternal (al-Qadim wa al-Azali):He is without beginning or end.

A number of God’s well-known negative attributes are as follows:

1. God is not composite: He is simple. If He were composite. He would have been in need of His constituent parts, while He is absolutely self-sufficient, without need.
2. God is not corporeal. Corporeal being is finite, mutable, and perishable, but He is infinite, immutable, and imperishable.
3. God is not perceptible, for if He were perceptible, lie would have been corporeal, but He is incorporeal.
4. God is without an equal: He is unique. If there were other beings on par with Him. He would have been finite and limited, for it is impossible for two absolutely infinite beings to co-exist. Furthermore, the unity governing this world clearly demonstrates the unity of its Creator.