immoral deeds, both open and concealed.’ And his saying:

‘Allah’s hand is full.’

And his saying:

‘In His other hand is the balance, which He lowers and raises.’

And his saying:

‘On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will grasp the earths, and the heavens will be in His right hand. Then He will say: “I am the King.”’

Similar to this is his saying:

‘Three of the Lord’s handfuls.’

And his saying:

‘When He created Adam, He wiped his back with His right hand.’

And his words in the hadith of Abū Razīn:

‘I said: “O Messenger of Allah, what will our Lord do with us when we meet Him?” He replied: “You will be presented before Him with your faces visible to Him; nothing about you will be hidden from Him. Your Lord will then take a handful of water in His hand and sprinkle it toward you. By the life of your God, not one of your faces will be missed by a drop of it.”’

Ahmad recorded it in the Musnad. There is also the hadith concerning:

‘The handful with which He brings out of the Fire people who have never done any good and have been reduced to charcoal. He then casts them into one of the rivers of Paradise, called the River of Life.’

And reports such as the hadith:

‘I saw my Lord in the most beautiful form.’

And his saying:

‘He created Adam in His image.’

And his saying:

‘One of you will draw near to his Lord until He places His shelter over him.’

And his saying:

‘He spoke to your father face to face.’

And his saying:

‘There is not one of you whose Lord will not speak to him, with no interpreter between them to interpret for him.’

And his saying:

‘Our Lord will reveal Himself to us on the Day of Resurrection, laughing.’

In the hadith of the Ascension recorded in the authentic collection:

‘Then the Compeller, the Lord of Might, drew near and came closer, until He was two bow-lengths from him or nearer.’

And his saying:

‘He wrote a book, which is with Him above the Throne: