Al-Wāsiʿ - The One Whose Capacity is Limitless in all Realms

Al-Wāsiʿ is derived from capacity. Sometimes capacity is related to knowledge, as it is extensive and embraces a great number of things that are known. At other times it is related to beneficence and the spreading of blessings. (But) no matter how it is understood and to what it is applied, the absolute Al-Wāsiʿ is God Most High, because if one contemplates His knowledge one knows that there is no shore for the sea of His objects-of-knowledge. Rather would the seas be depleted if they were used as ink for His words. (Furthermore), if one were to contemplate His beneficence and blessings, (one would know that) there is no limit to His object-of-power. Every (other) capacity, even if it is great, ultimately reaches its limit, and that which does not reach such a limit is more deserving of the name capacity. God Most High is the absolute Al-Wāsiʿ because every (other) extensive (subject) is restricted in comparison with that which is more extensive.

The capacity of man concerns the things that he knows, as well as his character. If his knowledge (ʿulūm) is extensive, then he is wāsiʿ in proportion to the capacity of his knowledge; and if his character has expanded to the point that the fear of poverty, the irritation of those about him who are envious, the victory of greed and other attributes of this nature do not harass him, then he is wāsiʿ (in both knowledge and character), even though all of that has its limitation. However, the true Al-Wāsiʿ is God Most High.