ahl as-sunnah wa l-jamāʻah (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة), "people of the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the consensus of the Ummah" or ahl as-sunnah (أهل السنة) for short believe that
- Allah is one, without partner
- Nothing is like Him
- Nothing debilitates Him
- No deity exists except Him
- He is preexistent without origin, eternal without end.
- He neither perishes nor ceases to exists
- Nothing will be except what He wills
- Imaginations cannot attain Him; comprehensions cannot perceive Him
- Creatures do not bear any similarity to Him
- Alive, he never dies; all-sustaining, He never sleeps.
- He is a creator without any need to create and a provider without any stores of provision
- He seizes life without fear and resurrects without effort
- Just as He was possessed of His attributes prior to His creation, so He remains with the same attributes without increasing in them as a result of His creation coming into being.
- As He was before creation qualified with specific attributes, so He remains forever described by them.
- It is not after creating the universe that He merits the name the Creator, nor through originating His creatures that he merits the name the Originator.
- He possesses the quality of sovereignty with or without fief, and the quality of creativity with or without creation
- And while He is the Resurrector of the Dead after he resurrects them, he merits the same name before their actual resurrection. Likewise, He merits the name the Creator before their actual creation.
- That is because He is omnipotent. Everything is dependent upon Him, and every affair is effortless for Him. he needs nothing, and There is nothing like Him, yet He is the Hearing, the Seeing
- He originated the creation with omniscience.
- He measured out the lots [of all He created]
- he determined the spans of their lives
- None of their actions were concealed from Him before He created them. He knew what they would do before He created them.
- He commanded them to obey Him and proscribed them from disobeying him.
- All things are in accordance with His determination and will, and His will is fullfilled
- His servants are without volition except what He will for them. Thus, what He wills for them will be, and what He does not will for them will not be.
- He guides, protects, and preserves whomever He wills by grace. And He misguides, forsakes and afflicts whomever He wills by justice
- All of them vacillate in His providence between His grace and His justice
- he transcends having any opposites or peers
- None can thwart His decree, over His judgement, or override His command
- We believe in all of that and are certain that all of it is for him.
