Evidence of the Preserved Board, Faith in it, and the Competence of Allah Almighty to Know What it Contains and Hears the Creaking of the Pens

Abstract

Belief in the unseen is the origin of faith and its highest attributes. Allah Almighty sent His Messenger, Mohammed (PBUH) to inform us of the unseen, and from the unseen that he told us is the preserved board, its presence and belief in it is a great wisdom, including the sign of the greatness of the Creator, the completeness of His knowledge, His dominance, His ability, the perfection of His creation and management, the Blessed and Almighty. The preserved board is one of the prescience that Allah Almighty has invoked his knowledge and no one of his creation has seen it, and it is sufficient for us to know it in the general aspect without knowing its subtleties and details because Allah Almighty taught his creatures, and had them to know the great meanings of His creation and command without its details and assigning its attribute to Allah Almighty, that it is hidden, and it is one of the creatures that Allah Almighty created to survive, so it does not be perished or passed away.This paper attempts to explain the evidence which is related to the preserved board that mentioned in the Book of Allah and the hadiths of the Prophet mentioned in the books of the Sunnah and the sayings of the scholars of the nation in the books of beliefs and interpretation and the ruling of belief in it and the statement of the competence of the Almighty with knowledge of what is in it and hearing the creaking of the pens of the angels by which they were writing the revelation of Allah and from what His command decrees, from what the angels used to copy from the preserved board, or from what Allah Almighty wanted to write about His command and management.