Authentic hadith collections contain reports from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, transmitted by Abū Hurayra, Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn Masʿūd, and Ibn ʿAbbās, which accord with the meaning of this verse: Allah Most High takes hold of the upper and lower worlds, holds them, shakes them, and says, “I am the King! Where are the kings of the earth?”

Some transmitted reports state:
“He tosses it as one of you tosses a ball.”

Ibn ʿAbbās said, “The seven heavens and the seven earths, together with everything within them and between them, are no more in the hand of the Most Merciful than a mustard seed in the hand of one of you.”

If someone, by saying that all events inhere in His essence, intends the meaning indicated by the revealed texts, then this is true. It is among the greatest proofs of Allah’s greatness, His immense majesty and power, His acts that inhere in Himself, and His acts in His creatures.

But if he means that He possesses every newly arising attribute, this entails that He possesses attributes with actual existence that are contrary to perfection, such as newly arising ignorance in the form of false beliefs, and similar