Al-Qayyūm - The Self-Subsisting One

If there is in existence an existent whose essence is self-sufficient, whose subsistence does not come from one other than it, and the perpetuity of whose existence is not conditioned by the existence of one other than it, (certainly) this existent is absolutely self-subsistent. Furthermore, if every other existent would subsist by means of it in such a way that the existence and the perpetuity of the existence of things are inconceivable except by it, then it is Al-Qayyūm because it subsists by its own essence, and the subsistence of everything is by means of it. That one is no other but God Most High. Man’s access in respect of this characteristic is commensurate with his independence of (things) other than God Most High.