except the veil of the Essence, for indeed it is from it, and what was from it is not other than it.

[73] And the Scholar, His glory is mighty, was asked about the names and attributes that the Creator manifested for His existence in reality, what are they and upon what do they fall, so he answered: "Indeed, they fall upon the soul which is the Greatest Name and the most majestic, most honorable veil; as for the Essence, neither a name nor an attribute falls upon it.

[74] And Muhammad ibn Sinan said in the Book of the Paradigm and the Form: So the names and attributes are detached and attached letters standing by themselves; they do not indicate except upon themselves as long as they are solitary. But when those letters assemble, they indicate by their assembly upon other than them, because nothing of them is gathered and composed except for an originated meaning that was not, before that, a thing mentioned.

So Abu Al-Hasan ibn Shu'bah, may Allah have mercy on him, expressed this and said: Know that an attribute is not described for a non-described entity, for the Name is other than the Named,