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ArticlesOfTheIslamicFaithByGhazali, page : 14
if mankind, jinn, angels, and devils were to unite to try to
move the weight of an atom in the world or to render it still,
without His Will they would fail.
His Will subsists in His Essence amongst His Attributes. He has
not ceased to be described by it from eternity, willing,
-in His Infinity - the existence of the things at their appointed
time which He has decreed. So they come into existence
at their appointed times as He has willed in His Infinity
without precedence or delay. They come to pass in accordance
with His Knowledge and His Will without variation or change.
He directs matters not through arrangement of thought and awaiting
the passage of time, and so no affair occupies Him from
another affair.
move the weight of an atom in the world or to render it still,
without His Will they would fail.
His Will subsists in His Essence amongst His Attributes. He has
not ceased to be described by it from eternity, willing,
-in His Infinity - the existence of the things at their appointed
time which He has decreed. So they come into existence
at their appointed times as He has willed in His Infinity
without precedence or delay. They come to pass in accordance
with His Knowledge and His Will without variation or change.
He directs matters not through arrangement of thought and awaiting
the passage of time, and so no affair occupies Him from
another affair.