or a limitation—this is intended by it in eternity, since there was no one for whom He named Himself or to whom He made Himself known."

And the scholar of the generation, Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified him, said: "The one described with eternity is that He is not from a thing, nor in a thing, nor upon a thing, nor inside, nor outside, and He is not described by a described, and letters do not pronounce Him, nor is He known by understanding, nor is He imagined in an illusion, solitary in His Essence, no one is with Him from the two universes, the luministic and the human. This is the attribute that they call the attribute of eternity, the unknown limitation, the impenetrable unseen, the attribute of interiority, and the hidden treasure. This attribute is the one concerning which it is said: 'It has no attribute to be attained, nor a limitation by which parables are struck, and the speaker has no speech concerning it.'"

And when He, glorified is He, willed to be known, as came in the Qudsi Hadith: "I was a hidden treasure, so I loved to be known, then I created creation and made Myself known to them, so through Me they knew Me." He, glorified is He, created creation and imposed upon them His knowledge,