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66. Essence of Islam-1 not powerful and were helpless, nothing could be expected of Him. Then He says: 31 رب العلمينَ . الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ . مُلِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ 0 31 أجيب دعوة الداءِ 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 responds to it, that is to say, He accepts prayers. 33 which means that He is the الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ. Then He says:. Ever-Living and All-Sustaining. If He were not EverLiving 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 Uşūl ki Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 10, pp. 372-376]. Four Principal Attributes of Allāh. 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, Raḥmāniyyat, Raḥīmiyyat and Mālikiyyat of the Day of Judgement. . For its manifestation, Rububiyyat demands nothingness, or a state resembling nothingness. Every form of creation, 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-Ikhlas, 112:2-5 [Publisher]