2اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُMir Ahmed AliGod,1 the NeedlessI,‘Samad’, i.e., independent of any one—All perfect—The One to Whom recourse is made by everything Eternal for its needs, both for existence and for perfection. The One who needs no subsistence of any kind—Self Eternal for its needs, both for existence and for perfection. The One who needs no subsistence of any kind—Self existing to understand Whose existence every mind is drowned in marvel and wonder. Nothing is hidden from His all-enveloping Knowledge—Is not accommodable in anything not even in intellect, Infinite in all aspects of the existence and attributes. In fact the names or the attributes mentioned to describe His existence or its nature, are inconveyable in their fullness hence cannot be translated to give the correct or the fullest sense of the meaning of the terms.All the meanings attached to this term ‘Samad’ are the necessary properties of the actual meaning given in the note on the authority of Holy Imam Ali ibnul Husain Az-Zainul-Abideen of the Ahlul-Bait (A.P.)Perfect—the compact independent—on Whom all depend.