[[Detailing the Two Horizons: The Unknown and the Known]]

And Abu Sa‘id, may Allah sanctify him, said: "Whoever does not release Him from the two horizons, and deem Him transcendent above both states, will inevitably have perceived Him, encompassed Him, and likened Him to His creation."

And it has come in the "Book of al-Usūs": "Indeed, the Meaning [al-Ma‘nā] has an unknown horizon and a known horizon."

As for the unknown horizon, which is hiddenness: it cannot be grasped by a mind, nor envisioned by an imagination, nor does any relation, attribute, or essence apply to it.

It is not taken as a direction of prayer [Qiblah], nor is it aimed at in supplication. That is a horizon by which He does not bind His creation to worship, nor is its knowledge granted to anyone, nor is it known how to aim toward it. So this is the horizon of the unknown, meaning hiddenness; because the attributes of the unknown horizon are to say: Neither inside nor outside, neither completely separate nor intermixed.

As for the horizon of the known: [it is] to be recognized by five things: that the essence be distinct, that it be structural,