This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٣٥ - Qualities of the Glorious Allah
Hasan: This is what I like about you. You are precise which encourages me to give whatever explanation you want.
Anwar: Thanks for the compliment, sir.
Hasan: Thanks to you. All right, let’s go back to your question. Religious scholars introduced some perfect qualities and some other negative qualities, that is, perfect qualities exclusively belong to the very essence of the Glorious Allah such as knowledge, power and life, but the possible qualities belong to the creatures of Allah; this is the reason why they are known as negative qualities. Lightness, heaviness, tallness, shortness, matter, weakness, ignorance, etc. are some negative qualities to describe the possible entities or the creatures and not Allah, Praised Be His Name.
Anwar: I hear about other qualities like the Creator, the Provider, the Merciful and the Compassionate. What type of qualities are they?
Hasan: These are known actual qualities that describe the essence of Allah. In other words, Allah cannot be the Creator and not be The Everlasting, Omniscient or