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[Machine] Moses, ﷺ , said, "O Lord, they ask me how Your beginning was?" He said, "Inform them that I am the existing before all things, the creator of all things, and the existing after all things."  

الزهد لأحمد:٣٤٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أبِي أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ أَتَشٍ حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ عَنْ وَهْبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ مُوسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّهُمْ يَسْأَلُونَنِي كَيْفَ كَانَ بَدْؤُكَ؟ قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْهُمْ أَنِّي الْكَائِنُ قَبْلَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَالْمُكَوِّنُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَالْكَائِنُ بَعْدَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ