Feasibility Study of the Meaning of Kun fa yakūn for the word Ṣamad

Ṣamad (the Eternal), as one of the words disputed by the interpreters, is explained in some lexical, narrative, and exegetical sources as kun fa yakūn (Be, and it was) or the subjectivity of God’s command and the category of creation. This research has surveyed the feasibility of the meaning of kun fa yakūn for Ṣamad considering the purpose of Sūrat al-Tawḥīd. Observing the meaning of divine creation and the subjectivity of command kun fa yakūn for the word Ṣamad in the lexical, narrative and exegetical texts, the existence of existential-theological goals in the epistemic areas of God’s essence, attributes, names and actions in Sūrat al-Tawḥīd, as well as the attribute of Ṣamad as being a verb, makes the meaning of kun fa yakūn (ṣun‘ lā min shay‘ = created from nothing) possible for Ṣamad. Also, the meaning of mukhtār (self-determined) has an authenticated relationship with other verses of Sūrat al-Tawḥīd, and considering its purpose, it has the capacity to answer some existential-theological misconceptions. God, in Whose hands lies the creation and the command, is a creator who transcends what He creates, being born, and having a spouse; He innovates by kun fa yakūn.