For He is greater than that the minds of men should delimit...

For He is greater than that the minds of men should delimit Him through thought (tafkir) or angels should encompass Him through the estimation, despite their proximity to the kingdom of His might.” “High be He exalted above having an equal (kufw) with which to be compared, for He is the Subtle: when imaginations desire to encroach upon Him in the depths of the unseen regions of His dominion, (when) thoughts (fikar) free from insinuating intrusions seek to grasp the knowledge of His Essence, (when) hearts are thrown into mad confusion over Him in trying to embrace Him through conforming to His attributes, (when) the ways of the approach of reason’s powers become obscured since no attributes attain to…