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Is it permissible to describe Allah as a "nafs" (self/soul) based on the verse "Every soul (nafs) will taste death" and the supplication "O Allah, we ask You by every name You have called Yourself"?

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This supplication is affirmed in authentic hadiths and is supported by the Almighty's saying: (Your Lord has decreed upon Himself mercy) and (And Allah warns you of Himself), and the saying of Jesus: (You know what is in my soul, and I do not know what is in Your soul). And in the Hadith Qudsi: "Indeed, I have forbidden injustice for Myself" and "If he remembers Me to himself, I remember him to Myself." So there is no harm in what has been affirmed by the texts, knowing that Allah is unlike His creation, and there is nothing like unto Him, and (Everything will perish except His Face).

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