Where is Allah? Is our Lord everywhere or is He above the heavens? I will attempt to highlight the main points of the Sunni and Shia perspective in answer to this question and then I will show you how I reached my conclusion on this subject, inshallah. Sunni perspective The Sunni perspective is that Allah is above the creation and He is with us in His knowledge and not in Himself. I really don't understand what that means – I have been told that it means – He is aware of everything as He is the one that created the system of this universe(every atom, nook and cranny) and he knows everything that :happens in it as he designed it (every physic law, every cause and effect of the spiritual law) so he knows what will happen as it has already been written. No leaf falls without His Knowledge. “With Him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that none knoweth but He. He knoweth whatever there is on the earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge: t