Intercession with Him takes place only by His leave: He is the One who grants permission to the intercessor, appoints him to intercede, and then accepts his plea. Thus He has neither partner nor helper in any respect, a truth that bespeaks the perfection of His power, His creative act, His Lordship, His absolute self-sufficiency, and His being the Eternal Refuge.
Fourth, His words:
“and they encompass nothing of His knowledge except what He wills.” (al-Baqarah 2:255)
These words show that it is He who teaches the servants whatever portion of His knowledge He wishes, and that they possess no knowledge save what He grants them. He alone is the One who educates and guides; no one can know a thing unless He teaches it—just as He alone creates and brings into being. He “created and proportioned, destined and guided.” The very first revelation of the Qur’an declares:
“Recite in the name of your Lord who created—created man from a clinging clot. Recite, and your Lord is Most Generous, who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know.” (al-ʿAlaq 96:1-5)
Fifth, His words:
“and safeguarding them does not weary Him.” (al-Baqarah 2:255)
Guarding the heavens and the earth neither burdens nor tires Him. This proves the completeness of His power and that no hardship or fatigue can touch Him. A parallel verse states:
“We certainly created the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them in six days, and no weariness touched Us.” (Qāf 50:38)
The negation of weariness affirms His perfect power and the absence of anything that would undermine it.
Similarly, His saying:
“Vision cannot encompass Him, while He encompasses all vision.” (al-Anʿām 6:103)
Here He denies that vision can fully encircle Him, which points to the immensity of His majesty. The verse indicates that even when He is seen, eyes do not encompass Him; it affirms the possibility of seeing Him while denying that any gaze can ever surround His reality, establishing the vision of Him and the impossibility of encompassing Him.