Tafsir Asma Allah al-Husna li-al-Sadi - Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi’ - (220)

Tafsir Asma Allah al-Husna li-al-SadiAbd al-Rahman al-Sadi’

because His self-sufficiency is inseparable from His very essence, just as He cannot be other than the Creator, the All-Powerful, the Provider, and the Beneficent. Thus, He has no need of anyone in any respect.

He is the Self-Sufficient, in whose Hand are the treasuries of the heavens and the earth, and the treasuries of this world and the Hereafter. He enriches all His creation in a general sense, and especially enriches His chosen servants through the knowledge of their Lord and the truths of faith that He pours into their hearts1.

Such is the perfection of His self-sufficiency and generosity that He commands His servants to call upon Him, promises to answer their supplications and fulfil all their wishes, and grants them from His bounty both what they have asked for and what they have not. Such is the perfection of His self-sufficiency that, if all creation, from the first to the last, gathered in one place and asked of Him, and He gave each of them everything they asked for and all they could wish for, this would not diminish His dominion by an atom’s weight. Such is the perfection of His self-sufficiency and the vastness of His gifts that He lavishes upon the inhabitants of His abode of honour bliss, successive delights, and unceasing blessings that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has imagined.

Such is the perfection of His self-sufficiency that He has taken neither a companion nor a child, has no partner in His dominion, and needs no protector out of weakness. He is the Self-Sufficient, perfect in His attributes and qualities, who enriches all His creatures2.

63 – The Opener3:

He, may Allah Most High have mercy on him, said: “The Opener is He who judges between His servants through His religious rulings, His decrees, and His judgments of recompense; who, in His kindness, has opened the inner eyes of the truthful and opened

1. Al-Tafsīr (5:629). 2. Al-Haqq al-Wādih al-Mubīn, pp. 47–48. 3. The evidence for this name is Allah Most High’s statement: “Say: Our Lord will gather us together, then judge between us in truth. He is the All-Deciding, the All-Knowing” (Saba’: 26).

لأن غناه من لوازم ذاته، كما لا يكون إلا خالقاً قادراً رازقاً محسناً فلا يحتاج إلى أحد بوجه من الوجوه. فهو الغني الذي بيده خزائن السماوات والأرض، وخزائن الدنيا والآخرة المغني جميع خلقه غني عاماً، والمغني لخواص خلقه مما أفاض على قلوبهم من المعارف الربانية والحقائق الإيمانية١. ومن كمال غناه وكرمه أنه يأمر عباده بدعائه، ويعدهم بإجابة دعواتهم، وإسعافهم بجميع مراداتهم، ويؤتيهم من فضله ما سألوه، وما لم يسألوه، ومن كمال غناه أنه لو اجتمع أول الخلق وآخرهم في صعيد واحد فسألوه، فأعطى كلاً منهم ما سأله وما بلغت أمانيه ما نقص من ملكه مثقال ذرة، ومن كمال غناه، وسعة عطاياه ما يبسطه على أهل دار كرامته من النعيم، واللذات المتتابعات، والخيرات المتواصلات، مما لا عين رأت ولا أذن سمعت ولا خطر على قلب بشر. ومن كمال غناه أنه لم يتخذ صاحباً ولا ولداً ولا شريكاً في الملك، ولا ولياً من الذل، وهو الغني الذي كمل بنعوته، وأوصافه، المغني لجميع مخلوقاته٢. ٦٣ - الفتاح٣: قال رحمه الله تعالى: "الفتاح: الذي يحكم بين عباده، بأحكامه الشرعية، وأحكامه القدرية، وأحكام الجزاء، الذي فتح بلطفه بصائر الصادقين، وفتح

١ التفسير (٥/ ٦٢٩). ٢ الحق الواضح المبين (ص٤٧ - ٤٨). ٣ ودليل هذا الاسم قال الله تعالى: ﴿قُلْ يَجْمَعُ بَيْنَنَا رَبُّنَا ثُمَّ يَفْتَحُ بَيْنَنَا بِالْحَقِّ وَهُوَ الْفَتَّاحُ الْعَلِيمُ﴾ (سبأ: ٢٦).