And it is not He who is desired by him who conceives of Him in his imagination.

And it is not He who is desired by him who conceives of Him in his imagination.” “Everything that can be known in itself is fashioned. [1unity] All that stands apart from Him is an effect. God is inferred from what He fashions (sun’), the knowledge of Him is made fast by the powers of reason, and the argument (hujjah) for Him is established by (man’s) primordial nature.” “God’s creating of the creatures is a veil between Him and them.

His separation from them is that He is disengaged from their localization. [70] That He is their origin is proof for them that He has no origin, for none that has an origin can originate others. That He has created them possessing means (of accomplishing things) is proof that He has no means, for means are witness to the poverty of those who use them.” “So His names are an expression, His acts are (a way) to make (Him) understood, and His Essence is Reality.

[71] His inmost centre separates Him from creation, and His otherness limits what is other than He. Therefore, ignorant of God is he who asks for Him to be described! Transgressing against Him is he who seeks to encompass Him! Mistaken is he who imagines to have fathomed Him!” “Whoso says ‘how?’ has compared Him (to something). Whoso says ‘why?’ has professed for Him a cause. Whoso says ‘when?’ has determined Him in time. Whoso says ‘in what?’ has enclosed Him.

Whoso says ‘to what?’ has professed for Him a limit. Whoso says ‘until what?’ has given Him an end. Whoso gives Him an end has associated an end with Him. Whoso associates an end with Him has divided Him. Whoso divides Him has described Him. Whoso describes Him has deviated from the straight path concerning Him.” [72] God does not change with the changes undergone by creation, just as He does not become limited by delimiting that which is limited.