8) Speech

(Note: New readers, refer back to this post [link]for the explanation of Essential Attributes.)

Divine Speech.

Divine Speech is the final essential attribute of God that we need to believe in before properly following religion. It is the 8th attribute and the key to knowing any other Divine attributes after it. The 8 attributes can all be reached by the intellect alone, however all the other attributes that come later can only be made clear to us through Divine revelation.

We know that God has Knowledge, that God Has Might and Will power, is All-Seeing, All-Hearing, and is Alive. But none of those attributes give us any means of properly knowing what God wants or expects from us. The relation between creation and Creator would be lacking if not for the Divine attribute of Speech ( Kalam الكلام in Arabic). Divine Speech is what connects our understanding and actions to God.


God communicates with His creation in various ways, however His speech isn't transmitted by sound waves as our speech is with one another. That is because sound waves are created and everything that is created needs something to exist by. God's speech is not created and therefore it cannot be in need of something else such as sound waves. What we read in the Holy books are symbols that are taught to us in order to access God's words.

It is through God's speech that Prophets know what they know.
It is through God's speech that the Prophetic messages are spread.
It is through God's speech that we know what God expects from His creation, what He accepts and what He does not accept.
It is through God's speech that we believe in His Majestic revelations.
It is through God's speech that we know how to show our love to God.

God's Speech, like His Knowledge, relates to all 3 categories of reality that which is Possible, Impossible, and the Necessary.