one sees nothing but their likeness as a representation within the self, since they have looked upon the form of their own self without any physical relocation or cessation—yet [God] 1 is far greater than that.
Know that whosoever recognizes the Meaning (al-Ma'na) through the Mim, recognizes the Mim through the Sin, recognizes the Sin [through the Orphan] 2 , [extricates every single thing from another] 3 , and understands how to isolate each [from] the other, then their gnostic recognition has reached perfection. It is completely impermissible to [deem] 4 the Meaning, Mighty and Majestic, as being veiled by anything or confined, because He is [a self-subsisting Meaning] 5 .
And the meaning of their statement: "Indeed, the Eternal, the Pre-Existent, majestic is his glory, cannot be subject to a name, an attribute, a description, or a boundary"—this [refers to His Essence] 6 in pre-eternity, since there was no one to name Him, nor [anyone] 7 from the two realms—