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66 Essence of Islam-1 not powerful and were helpless, nothing could be ex- pected of Him. Then He says: 31 رَبِّ الْعَلَمِينَ . الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ ، مُلِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ 310 أجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ 32 He is the Sustainer of all the worlds. He is Gracious, Merciful and Master of the Day of Judgement, and has not delegated His power to anyone else. He hears the call of everyone who calls on Him and re- sponds to it, that is to say, He accepts prayers. 33 Then He says: الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ which means that He is the Ever-Living and All-Sustaining. If He were not Ever- Living there would be the fear lest He might die before us. Then it is said that He is Single, has no father and no son and no equal and no peer34. [Islāmī Uşül kī Philosophy, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 10, pp. 372-376] Four Principal Attributes of Allah God Almighty has four principal attributes which may be called the mothers of all attributes. Every one of them makes a demand upon our humanness. These four are Rububiyyat, Rahmāniyyat, Rahīmiyyat and Malikiyyat of the Day of Judgement. For its manifestation, Rubūbiyyat demands nothingness, or a state resembling nothingness. Every form of crea- tion, whether animate or inanimate, comes into being through it. 31 al-Fatihah, 1:2-4 [Publisher] 32 al-Baqarah, 2:187 [Publisher] 33 al-Baqarah, 2:256 [Publisher] 34 al-Ikhlāş, 112:2-5 [Publisher]