The Introduction 1
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Praise be to Allah, the Manifest by His light, the Witnessed in His earth and His heaven, for there is no god other than Him and no deity worshiped besides Him, [Jalla] beyond what eyes have seen, and thoughts and conjectures do not encompass Him, the Knower of what was and what will be, the Manifest even if He is hidden, and the Hidden even if He is manifest, the Manifest to the people of light by light, and to humans as a human, while He is transcendent above names, attributes, and forms.
He has manifested from Himself movement and transmission, transformation and cessation, form and likeness, hiddenness and manifestation, and absence and presence; while He is exalted above all of this, for no earth contains Him and carries Him, and no heaven encompasses Him and shades Him; He is exalted above anthropomorphism and depiction, and He is the High, the Great.
And may Allah bless His name, the bringer of glad tidings, and His gate, the warner,