The Qualities of Beauty and Majesty
The Qualities of Beauty and Majesty: Qualities in general are of two types : qualities of perfection, and qualities of imperfection. Qualities of perfection, as mentioned above, are of a positive nature and give higher ontological value and greater ontological effect to the object that they qualify.
This is clear from the comparison between a live, knowing and capable being and a dead being which lacks knowledge and capability. Qualities of imperfection are the reverse of such qualities. When we analyze these imperfect qualities we see that they are negative and show a lack of perfection, such as ignorance, impatience, ugliness, illness, and the like. Therefore, it can be said that the negation of the quality of imperfection is the quality of perfection. For example, the negation of ignorance is knowledge and the negation of impotence is power and capability. For this reason the Holy Quran has related each positive quality directly to God and negated every quality of imperfection from Him, attributing the negation of such imperfections to Him, as He says: “He is the knower, the Omnipotent,” or He says, “He is the Alive” or “Neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh Him,” or “Know that ye cannot frustrate Allah.”
The point that must never be forgotten is that God, the Most Exalted, is Absolute Reality without any limit or boundary.
Therefore, a positive quality attributed to Him will not possess any limitation. He is not material and corporeal or limited to space and time.
While possessing all positive qualities He is beyond every quality and state which belongs to creatures.
Every quality which in reality belongs to Him is purified from the notion of limitedness, as He says, “Nought is as His likeness.” (Quran, XLII, 11)
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Refrence:
Shi’ah، Allamah Muhammad Hussain Tabatabaei
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