Allah exists uncreated, eternal, transcendent and distinct from all. He is the only power, or energy, or actor, existing throughout the universe, and all other existence is pure passivity. From the simplest atom to the highest level of created being, all is characterized by complete inertia. W.S. Palgrave in The Muslim Idea of God sums up this system by calling it the Pantheism of Force or Act, thus exclusively assigned to God, who absorbs it all, exercises it all, and to Whom alone it can be ascribed whether for preserving or for destroying, for relative evil or for equally relative good. He is never associated with creatures in any direct communicative sense.
Man is never a partner in the revelational process.
Even Allah's most specific commands are mediated through the angel Gabriel. Divine transcendence and human submission are everywhere maintained and the proper attitude and response of man is always quiescence. Muslim thought allows for no causality as operative in the world except the primary cause of Allah's creative will. Secondary causes are illusory, simply a name for the observations we make concerning the manner in which Allah chooses to call into being new atoms to replace the former which ceased to exist as quickly as they had been created. Nothing can be said to have any kind of separate existence or predictable continuity.