And it was reported in one of the Monotheistic (Tawhidi) books on the authority of the trustworthy Sheikh Abu al-Husayn Muhammad bin Ali al-Jilli—may Allah sanctify him—who said: “A group of believers entered upon the Master Abu Abdillah al-Husayn bin Hamdan—may Allah sanctify him—asking him about what had become ambiguous to them regarding matters of knowledge (al-ma'rifah). So he said: 'Whoever negates what he saw, affirms what he knew, and worships what he found, has reached the ultimate in Monotheism (al-tawhid).' He said: 'The people became bewildered by that and did not understand it.' When they returned the following day, they said: 'What do we negate, what do we affirm, and what do we worship? For these are divisions into three regarding a single thing.' He said: 'Whoever negates what he saw of the visible image—meaning of the manifestations of incapacity such as birth, growth, eating, drinking, marriage, death, slaying,

and their likes—and affirms what he knew of the divine capability—meaning of the manifestations of the miraculous such as returning the sun, splitting the moon, reviving the dead, knowledge of the unseen, and their likes—and worships the Capable One who is manifest through this capability—meaning the One who appeared through incapacity and the miraculous... Yet the displaying of incapacity by Him, the Exalted, is a capability because it did not truly take place, despite the onlooker seeing it as a reality, just like a staff is seen in water as crooked and broken while in reality it is otherwise—thereby affirming divinity for Him and negating incapacity from Him.'”

All of that was only from the perspective of the dazzling capability; because when you witness the traces of this supernatural capability, you believe that it issues from the Capable One, and that it is impossible for the one whose capability is such to truly undergo the likes of this incapacity, which expresses weakness—and weakness is the antithesis of capability. The one from whom the sublime miracle issues, transcending the capacity of all creation, cannot conceivably experience the incapacity that encompasses them all.