the All-Hearing of their voices, the One who with His very eye beholds their bodies. His two hands are outstretched—hands other than the favor by which He created Adam and breathed into him of His Spirit, which is His command. Transcendent and sanctified is He above dwelling in a body, mingling with a body, or touching a body; exalted is He far beyond that. He is the One who wills—His is the sovereign will; the One who knows—His is perfect knowledge; the One who spreads forth His hands in mercy; the One who descends each night to the heaven of this world so that His creatures may draw near to Him through worship and seek from Him the means; the One who is near in