He, Most High, also said:

“Those are the ones in whose hearts He has inscribed faith and whom He has supported with a spirit from Him” (al-Mujādilah 58:22).

Whatever is found in the earlier scriptures stating that the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit dwells in the prophets and the believers is, in this qualified sense, true. Likewise, if someone says, “The speech of Allah settles in the hearts of those who recite it,” this, in the same respect, is correct.

As for the very attribute that subsists in the Lord, it is inconceivable that it could, in and of itself, subsist in anyone other than the Lord. In the same way, any attribute or accident that inheres in a created being cannot, in itself, inhere in something else.

Thus, the inherent properties of the sun—its form, its circular shape, and the light that resides within it—cannot inhere in anything other than the sun. The same is true of the body of fire: the heat and light that subsist in it do not subsist elsewhere. Rather, when the fire comes into contact with air or with some other substance, a different heat arises in that location, distinct from the heat that resides in the fire itself, and this new heat warms the air that is next to it. It is like a pot placed over a fire: the pot becomes hot, then the water inside it becomes hot, while the heat of the fire remains in the fire, the heat of the pot remains in the pot, and the heat of the water is a third, separate heat that has arisen in the water—distinct from the first two, even though it originated from them. All of this is encompassed by the single category of “heat.”