24ـ قَدْنَجا مَنْ وَحَّدَ (وَجَدَ، وُحِدَ).

24ـ قَدْنَجا مَنْ وَحَّدَ (وَجَدَ، وُحِدَ). He (‘a) said about the oneness of Allah: He is near everything but not attached, far from everything but not separate. 25ـ وقال ـ عليه السلام ـ في توحيدِ اللّهِ: قَريبٌ مِنَ الأشياءِ غَيرُ مُلابِس، بعيدٌ مِنْها غَيْرُ مُبايِن. He (‘a) said about the oneness of Allah, the Glorified: He is neither inside things nor outside them. 26ـ وقال ـ عليه السلام ـ في توحيدِ اللّهِ سُبْحانَهُ: لَيسَ في الأشياءِ بِوالِج ولا عَنْها بِخارج.

If your Lord had a partner, then his prophets would [also] have come to you. 27ـ لَو كانَ لِرَبِّكَ شَريكٌ لأتَتْكَ رُسُلُهُ. One who believes in the oneness of Allah, the Glorified, does not compare Him to the creation. 28ـ مَنْ وَحَّدَ اللّهَ سُبْحانَهُ لَمْ يُشَبِّهْهُ بِالخَلْقِ. He, the Glorified, was not perceived by the intellects and thus described, rather, He, the Exalted, described himself before the describers [attempted to describe Him].

29ـ لَمْ تَرَهُ سُبْحانَهُ العُقُولُ فَتُخْبِرَ عَنْهُ، بَلْ كانَ تعالى قَبلَ الواصِفينَ بِهِ لَهُ. Allah, the Glorified, did not give the intellect knowledge about the limits of His qualities, yet He did not prevent it from gaining the necessary understanding of Him. 30ـ لَمْ يُطْلِعِ اللّهُ سُبْحانَهُ العُقُولَ عَلى تَحديدِ صِفَتِهِ، وَلَمْ يَحْجُبْها عَنْ واجِبِ مَعرِفَتِهِ.

He, the Glorified, can neither be confined in the intellect, thereby changing through the process of thought [or imagination], nor in the shackles of the mind, thereby becoming limited and the object of alteration. 31ـ لَمْ يَتَناهَ سُبْحانَهُ في العُقُولِ فَيَكُونَ في مَهَبِّ فِكْرِها مُكَيَّفاً ولافي رَوِيَّاتِ خَواطِرِها مُحَدَّداً مُصَرَّفاً. Allah has not settled in anything so that it be said He exists therein, nor is He separated from anything so that it is said He is detached from it.

32ـ لَمْ يَحْلُلِ اللّهُ سُبْحانَهُ في الأشياءِ فَيكُونَ (فَيُقالَ هُوَ فيها كائِنٌ) فيها كائناً ولَمْ يَنْأ عَنْها فَيُقالَ هُوَ عَنْها بائنٌ. Whoever seeks permission from Allah, He grants it [to him]. 33ـ مَنِ اسْتَأذَنَ علَى اللّهِ أذِنَ لَهُ. [^1]: Referring to fatty tissue that makes up part of the eye. Previous…