This is because...

This is because, as will be explained later on,’ mediated knowledge in fact involves immediate knowledge. Accordingly, apprehension (hushûl) by the knower is a property of knowledge, though not every kind of apprehension, but an apprehension of something that is in pure actuality and absolutely devoid of all potentiality.

That is because we know intuitively that the known qua known has no potentiality to become another thing; it is not susceptible to change, nor can it become something diet than what it is. Accordingly, it involves the apprehension of something that is immaterial and free from all traces of potentiality. This we call ‘immediacy’ (hudhûr, lit. ‘presence’).

The immediacy of the known requires it to be something possessing complete actuality, free from any association with matter and potentiality that may make it deficient and incomplete in relation to its potential perfections. Further, the…