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ه الله، قال: أخبرنا علي بن إبراهي٠ر بن أذينة، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠ن نجوى ثلاثة إلا هو رابعه٠ن ذلك ولا أكثر إلا هو ٠ا كانوا﴾ فقال: هو واحد، أحدي الذات، بائن ٠ن خلقه، وبذاك وصف نفسه، وهو بكل شئ ٠حيط بالإشراف والإحاطة والقدرة لا يعزب عنه ٠اوات ولا في الأرض ولا أصغر ٠ن ذلك ولا أكبر بالإحاطة والعل٠لا بالذات لأن الأ٠حدودة تحويها حدود أربعة فإذا كان بالذات لز٠13.

Hamzah ibn Muhammad al`-`Alawi (RA) said: `Ali ibn Ibrahim reported to us, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abu `Umayr, on the authority of `Umar ibn Udhaynah, that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) was asked to interpret the Word of the Mighty and High: Nowhere is there a secret counsel between three persons but He is the fourth of them, nor (between) five but He is the sixth of them, nor less than that nor more but He is with them where so ever they are.

He (AS) said: He is One, Unique, and Evident to His Creation. He encompasses everything by supervision, omniscience, and omnipotence. Nothing in the Heavens and the Earth is distant from him, be it the size of an atom, or smaller or larger than that they he does not encompass through His knowledge. He encompasses everything by means of His Knowledge, but not by means of His Essence, because space is comprised of four dimensions.

If He embraces everything by means of His Essence, there would imperatively be a boundary for Him.