Al-'Ama- The Great Mist.

[Abu Hafsat]

As-Salaam alaikum, 

In Sunan Tirmidhi is the Noble Hadith where the Noble Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam, is asked:

"Where was Allah before the creation of the universe"? He replied :

"He was in the 'Ama." 

It goes on to say that it had no aboveness or belowness. In other words it was a primordial non-spatiality in non-time. 

Sayyadi Ali, may Allah ennoble his face, was asked the same question and after a long silence he said :

" To ask where was Allah is to ask of a place. Now Allah was- but there was no space. Then He created time/space and He is now as He was before time/space." 

From this, we note that 'Ama is incomprehensible.