If His beneficence, reward, blessing, and goodness are endless—and all this necessarily results from and is a fruit of His pleasure—what, then, of the attribute of pleasure itself?

His words, ‘equal to the weight of His Throne,’ affirm the Throne, its attribution to the Lord—Glorified and Exalted is He—and that it is unquestionably the heaviest of all created things; for had anything been heavier, glorification would have been weighed against that instead.

Thus, the first multiplication concerns number and quantity; the second, nature and quality; and the third, magnitude, weight, and sheer scale.

His words, ‘and as much as the ink needed for His words,’ encompass all three categories, for the ink needed for His words—Glorified and Exalted is He—has no limit in its magnitude, quality, or quantity. The Exalted says:

‘Say, “If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would run dry before the words of my Lord ran out, even if We brought another like it to replenish it.”’ 1

And the Exalted says:

‘If all the trees on earth were pens and the sea were ink, replenished by seven more seas, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ 2

This means that if the sea were assumed to be ink, all the trees on earth were pens, and those pens drew upon that ink, the seas and pens would be used up, whereas the words of the Lord would neither perish nor be exhausted.

The point is that this glorification embodies such attributes of perfection and qualities of majesty as necessarily make it superior to other formulas....” Here ends his statement—may Allah have mercy on him.3

Furthermore, the scholars—may Allah have mercy on them—have drawn attention to the importance of the servant’s knowing the meanings of these