Whoever conditioned Him [assigned modality to Him] did not know Him, and whoever described Him was ignorant of His essence. So by His bestowing (ifadatihi) power to the capable ones, He was named Capable, and by His teaching knowledge to the knowing ones, He was named Knowing. And likewise every thing by which He was described only flowed upon Him; it is only from the part that He granted it, not from the part that the description is a perfection for His essence and it is additional to it."

"And the most perfect of the knowledges of Him and the people of temperament (ahl al-mizaj) is the negating of the line of imagination (khatt al-khayal) occurring in the delusion (al-wahm) concerning His essence, and the negating of His limit at His manifestation (tajallihi), like the blessed tree rising from Mount Sinai, described by the exiting from the limits of the directions in His, the Almighty's, saying: ['a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west'] ¹ , by the affirming of the manifest power, and the realization of the truth, and the existence of the witnessing (al-'iyan),