Al-‘Alîy (The Most High)

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Al-Ghazali:

Al-‘Alîy (The Most High) is Al-Ladhi (That Which) is lofty above all others and all other ranks end up, at the ultimate end, reaching Al-‘Alîy (The Most High).

As we sense, there is physical above-ness and intellectual above-ness.

Hu’s above-ness is absolute; i.e. in contrast to human above-ness, it needs nothing else to be below it, relatively speaking. Al-‘Alîy (The Most High) is lofty above all else, even if there is nothing in existence.

Al-‘Alîy (The Most High) has gradations for Hu’s loftiness, as does physical above-ness.


Al-Jawzia:
Allah is above all creation , that is the meaning of presiding over the ‘Arsh (Divine Throne). This in turn means that, all Divine Attributes are infinitely perfected above and beyond anything the creation can conceive of or achieve.

Qurtubi:
Al-‘Alîy (The Most High) means that Allah’s Divine Attributes do not suffer from the imperfection of transience, nascence or evanescence.



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