210. 1. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p) described the concept of the eternity of God: Verily, He (God) is One, the Eternal refuge. His name has one and the same meaning. A believer: Some people of Iraq maintain that God hears with something different from what He hears.
Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p): They are liars. They have abandoned the religion of God and they have attributed a human likeness to God. High indeed is God, Sublime, exalted above that. He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing, He hears with what He sees, and sees with what He hears.
The believer: These people are also of the opinion that God is All-Seeing in the same sense and in the same way as they conceive seeing.
The Imam (p): God is Exalted above all this. Only that can be conceived which has the attribute of a created being and God is not like that.

211. 2. An atheist: Do you say that God is All-Hearing and All-Seeing?
Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p): God is All-Hearing and All-Seeing but He hears without any organic mechanism and sees without any instrument. He hears and sees by His Supreme Self. When I say ‘His Supreme Self’ I do not mean that He is one thing and His ‘Supreme Self’ is something else. But I wanted to explain what I knew because I had been asked and wanted to explain it to you since you had asked. If I say ‘He hears with the wholeness of His Being’ this does not mean that His whole has any parts, as whole according to our concept is made up of parts. But I wanted to make you understand and to interpret my knowledge. But in this matter to which I refer, there is nothing except that He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing, All-Knowing and All-Aware without diversity in His essence or in the meaning of His Supreme Self