He is named "The Empowered" (al-Qādir), and by His teaching of knowledge to the knowers, He is named "The Knower" (al-‘Ālim).
Likewise, every attribute He is described with applies to Him only because He granted it [to others], not because the attribute is a perfection for His Essence or something added to it. The most perfect of gnoses regarding Him for the "People of Temperament" (Ahl al-Mizāj) is the negation of the line of imagination that occurs within the illusion (al-wahm) regarding His Essence, and the negation of His limit during His manifestation (tajallī).
This is like the Blessed Tree emerging from Mount Sinai, characterized by its exit from the limits of directions in His—the Exalted—saying: {A blessed tree, an olive, neither of the East nor of the West} 1 . This is through the affirmation of the Manifest Power, the verification of the Truth, and the presence of direct vision (al- ‘ayān)—lifting the restriction from the witnessed attribute without affirming it [as the Essence itself], nor affirming what is other than it. It [the attribute] is not Him, nor is He it. Whoever solves this riddle has seized the treasure;