Who Made God?
The following note by Amin Ahasan Islahi sahab on Quran 112:1 will help clarify: Linguists clearly differentiate between اَحَد (Aḥad) and وَاحِد (Wāḥid). اَحَد (Aḥad) means someone in whose being none can be associated, andوَاحِد (Wāḥid) means someone in whose attributes none can be associated. Probably this is the reason why the word اَحَد (Aḥad) has never been used as an attribute other than that of God. This attribute also necessitates that He have no kin or relations, and at the same time it warrants that He be beyond and peerless in every sense. It also follows from this that God is uncreated and has always existed, and that everything else has been created and brought into existence. Naturally, someone who is the foremost out of His own accord should always exist because if at one time He never was, then it cannot be said of Him that He always existed. Summing up the discussion, two things must necessarily be accepted: Firstly, God has always existed, and secondly, everything except Him is His creation. These are the two necessary outcomes of His uniqueness and to deny both of these would be against sense and reason. In other words, if it is said that God is اَحَدٌ, then this means that He has always existed and He is the Creator of everything. (Amin Ahasan Islahi, Tadabbur-i Quran, vol. 9, 650)