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Can all the divine attributes—including the All-Merciful, the Provider, the Guide, and others—be understood through the perspectives of glorification and magnification? How? Specifically, how do these perspectives apply to these three attributes?
Divine attributes such as the All-Merciful, the Provider and the Guide can be understood through the perspectives of glorification and magnification. His mercy is incomparable and belongs exclusively to His essence, and His wrath is kept far from the believers. His provision, too, is unlike that of any provider: He provides without needing to be provided for. He alone is the true Guide, and His guidance is incomparable and belongs exclusively to His essence.
The All-Merciful
He alone is the All-Merciful; His mercy is without equal or likeness.
Mercy belongs to Him alone—none other.
His wrath is far from the believers; they are never deprived of His mercy.
He is exalted beyond being described by mercy.
The Provider
He alone provides for all;
His provision has no equal among all who provide (یا أرزق من کل رازق). He is the true Provider, even when He appoints means and intermediaries through which provision comes.
He is the Owner and Lord of all provision; provision belongs to Him alone.
He provides without needing provision Himself (یرزق و لا یرزق).
His providing cannot be described; no description can encompass it.
The Guide
He alone guides, even when He appoints messengers and intermediaries to guide.
His guidance has no equal or likeness.
Guidance belongs to Him alone.
He guides, without needing to be guided.
It is not that He can be described by guidance; the attribute of guidance cannot encompass Him.