Allah’s knowledge is perfect and comprehensive:


Abdullah ibn Mushabbib al-Qahtāni

{[O people], your god is only Allah; none has the right to be worshiped except Him. He encompasses everything in knowledge.”}

[Surat Taha: 98]

None of His creation resembles Him in terms of His perfect knowledge:

{...There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.}

[Surat ash-Shūra: 11]

{...He knew what you did not know, and He granted you prior to that an imminent conquest.}

[Surat al-Fat-h: 27]

When people know something, it is part of what Allah Almighty teaches them. All knowledge, related to the Sharia or destiny, does be
long to Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

{They said: “Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Verily, You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”}

[Surat al-Baqarah: 32]

Allah Almighty also says:

{...And He taught you what you did not know...}

[Surat an-Nisā’: 113]

If all people were to gather all the knowledge and information they possess, it would be insignificant compared to the vast knowledge of our Lord.

{And they ask you about the soul. Say: “The soul is of the affair of my Lord. And you have not been given of knowledge except a little.”}

[Surat al-Isrā’: 85]

When Al-Khidr and Mūsa (Moses) (peace be upon him) went aboard the ship and Al-Khidr saw a sparrow stand on the edge of the ship, making one or two pecks into the sea, he said to Moses:“O Moses, my and your knowledge compared to the knowledge of Allah is like the pecks of this sparrow compared to the sea.”


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