One of the secrets of the magnificent Qur’an is the way it throws light on and unveils the Lord of mankind through its discourse of His Attributes. Sometimes, therefore, the Lord is manifested through the verses of the Qur’an by the inducement of awe, majesty and sublimity, (which causes) heads to bow down, souls to quieten, voices to fade and pride to dissolve away like salt dissolves in water.

—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE]

Al-Ashqar, Shaikh ’Umar Sulaiman, The Names and Attributes of Allah According to the doctrine of Ahl-us-Sunnah wal Jama’ah. (Ipswich: Jam’iat Ihyaa’ Minhaaj al-Sunnah, 1999), p. 28.

(Read on pg 35, Umm Abdurrahman Sakina Hirschfelder, Who Is Allah? His Names and Attributes and their Significance to the Individual. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2010.)