Al-Badî`: The Originator

"Originator (badî`) of the heavens and the earth! When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, 'Be!' and it is" (2:117).

The Originator is Allah's quality to which nothing is similar. The absolute Originator is original in the sense that nothing known is similar to Allah neither in terms of essence nor attributes nor actions. If something similar exists, is it not absolutely original, unequaled, incomparable. No one is worthy of this name in an absolute sense except Allah. There was nothing before Him so that one like Him could not have been known before Him. Every existing thing which has come into being results from Allah's originating it and it is in no way analogous to its originator.