Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 16
? interjection in this context, the first two attributes thus being correlative to the latter two attributive names. In their amplified forms, the abbreviations would run thus "O All-Knowing, Truthful Lord, Thou art the Sufficient, the True Guide. In the spirit of this sense, the Sufficient, the Guide, two attributive names of Allah, as corollaries of His attributive names, the All-Knowing, the Truthful, are decisive between Christianity and Islam. For, when we say "O All-Knowing Truthful Lord, Thou art the Sufficient, the True Guide," it means that the attributes, the All-Knowing and the Truthful, are the source- attributes while the Sufficient and the True Guide are their correlatives. This is a truth that is rationally sound. Attributes of Allah the Excellent are of two categories. Some attributes are not productive of a sound effect while certain others are. They are, in other words, source- attributes for others. For instance, God is (The Feeder). Nevertheless, this attribute comes into play after the creative process and if there is no provision what is there for Him to feed with. Therefore His attributive The الرزاق Feeder) predicates His being) المطعم name Giver of provision). Some attributes are, therefore, primary and source-attributes, while others are their concomitants. Here the attributive names represented by and are concomitants of the attributive names represented by & and e. In other words, when God is All-Knowing (c), He is necessarily the Sufficient