and through You I was guided to You; were it not for You, I would not have known what You are."

[121] And the Messenger of Allah—His glory is mighty—was asked: "By what did you know Allah?" He said: "I knew all things through Allah."

And Ibn Makzun said in his Diwan:

Others beside me derive structural proof from what is other than You, Yet there is none other than You who can truly point to You.

And it has come down in the "Pure Canon" [Al-Dustur al-Tahir]: "O Guide to His own guides." Thus, it is firmly established that He is the One who points to His own Essence by His Essence, and none other than Him can point to Him.

And it was narrated that a certain Sufi beheld his Lord in the heaven and said: "My Master, You are the Sublime, the Magnificent; my heart has borne witness to You within the Light up to the utmost boundary of Your perfect attributes."

[122] And the wise Muhammad ibn Sinan said in the "Book of Veils and Lights" [Kitab al-Hujub wa-al-Anwar]: "Indeed,