Neither can the awareness comprehend Him -azwj nor can the veil cover Him -azwj ...

Neither can the awareness comprehend Him -azwj nor can the veil cover Him -azwj , and the veiling is between Him -azwj and His -azwj creatures. He -azwj Created them for Preventing it from what is possible in their persons and the possibility from what they are prevented from Him -azwj , and for the differentiation between the Maker from the Made, and the Limitless from the limited, and the Lord -azwj from the Nourished.

الْوَاحِدُ بِلَا تَأْوِيلِ عَدَدٍ وَ الْخَالِقُ لَا بِمَعْنَى حَرَكَةٍ وَ الْبَصِيرُ لَا بِأَدَاةٍ وَ السَّمِيعُ لَا بِتَفْرِيقِ آلَةٍ وَ الشَّاهِدُ لَا بِمُمَاسَّةٍ وَ الْبَاطِنُ لَا بِاجْتِنَانٍ وَ الظَّاهِرُ الْبَائِنُ لَا بِتَرَاخِي مَسَافَةٍ The One, without an explanation of a number, and the Creator, not with a prevention of movement, and the Seeing, not by tools, and the Hearing, not by a separate instrument, the Witness, not by the touching, and the Hidden, not by the covering, and the Manifest, the Remote, not by the lapsing of distance.

أَزَلُهُ نُهْيَةٌ لِمَجَاوِلِ الْأَفْكَارِ وَ دَوَامُهُ رَدْعٌ لِطَامِحَاتِ الْعُقُولِ قَدْ حَسَرَ كُنْهُهُ نَوَافِذَ الْأَبْصَارِ وَ قَمَعَ وُجُودُهُ جَوَائِلَ الْأَوْهَامِ His -azwj eternality is an end-point for the aims of thought, and His -azwj , and His -azwj Permanence is a determent to the enthusiasms of the intellects. His -azwj being has Blinded the windows of the sights, and His -azwj Existence has Suppressed the wanderings of the imaginations.

فَمَنْ وَصَفَ اللَّهَ فَقَدْ حَدَّهُ وَ مَنْ حَدَّهُ فَقَدْ عَدَّهُ وَ مَنْ عَدَّهُ فَقَدْ أَبْطَلَ أَزَلَهُ وَ مَنْ قَالَ أَيْنَ فَقَدْ غَيَّاهُ وَ مَنْ قَالَ عَلَامَ فَقَدْ أَخْلَى مِنْهُ وَ مَنْ قَالَ فِيمَ فَقَدْ ضَمَّنَهُ The one who described Allah -azwj , so he has limited Him -azwj , and the one who limits Him -azwj so he has numbered Him -azwj , and the one who numbers Him -azwj so he has negated His -azwj eternality, and the one who says, ‘where’, so he has ascribed an end-point to Him -azwj , and the one who says, ‘Upon what’, so he has isolated from Him -azwj , and the one who says, ‘In what’, so he has contained Him -azwj ’’.

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