The Book of Divine Unity · Hadith 247 (#Ḥadīth #4)
Chapter 28 | Negation of Space, Time, Stillness, Motion, Descending, Ascending, and Transference from Allah
4 - وروي أنه سئل عليه السلام أين كان ربنا قبل أن يخلق سماء وأرضا؟ فقال عليه السلام: (أين) سؤال عن مكان، وكان الله ولا مكان.
4. And it is narrated that he was asked: Where was our Lord before He created the Heaven and the Earth? Therefore, he replied, “`Where’ [ayna] is a question about space, and Allah existed when there was no space.”
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