‘Hazrat Ibn Abdullah Ansari Radiallahu Anhu narrates that he asked the Prophet Rasul Allah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam, “What was made first?”
Rasul Allah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam replied: “the initial thing that Allah made was my Noor, with his own Noor, earlier anything else. The Noor was moving about and travelling wherever Allah wanted. Then Allah wanted to create all, so he split the Noor in to four parts. With the first He made the Pen, with the second he created the tablet of destiny, with the third he made the Arsh, and He split fourth in to additional four.
(This Hadith has been narrated by Hazrat Abdul Razzaq Radiallahu Anhu, in his book
Fatawa-e-Hadithia, page 289.)
