everything that His sight reaches of His creation.” (1)

He also said in the supplication of istikhārah: “O Allah, I seek the best from You through Your knowledge, and I seek strength from You through Your power.” (2)

And his words: “I ask You by Your knowledge of the unseen and Your power over the creation.” (3)

‘Ā’ishah said: “Praise be to Allah whose hearing has encompassed all voices.” (4)(5)

And the like.

At other times He mentions (6) the ruling that flows from that attribute, as in His saying: “Allah has certainly heard…” (al-Mujādilah 58:1); “Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see” (Tā Hā 20:45); His saying: “We determined, and what an excellent Determiner We are” (al-Mursalāt 77:23); and His saying: “Allah knew that you had been betraying yourselves” (al-Baqarah 2:187), and the like of it.

He likewise explicitly affirms His being above (fawqiyyah) by using that very term, together with the words loftiness (‘uluw) and istiwā’, and that He is