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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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Explanation of that:

His saying: [He is not outside the limit of bodies].

Means: In Manifestation (Zuhur). Not in Essence (Jawhar) and Modality (Kayfiyyah).

And his saying: [And He is outside the limit of accidents].

And that is because accidents do not subsist by themselves and must have a body in which they appear.

And his saying: [Because He is limited by other than these limits] means: The limits of accidents.

And even if He is perceived by the limits of bodies in sight, he only negates them from Him by the Power that appears from Him, to establish the limits of Eternity.

And his saying: "Indeed, the Creator is neither taste, nor color, nor smell, nor sound", he negated that He manifests through accidents.

Then he amended, saying: [But He is another Body, special, unique in Oneness].

He intended by his saying "a special Body": Meaning distinct from accidental bodies.

And his saying: "Special, unique".

Meaning: Outside the limit of Nature (Tabi'ah), distinct from bodies composed of the four elements.

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