That is the heart of the all-knowing, perfect observer, above whom there is no one in any of the manifestations, below whom the attributes are manifested, and below them the actions are manifested, but since it is from the Divine Presence, and whoever has no manifestation of it from its being from the Divine Presence, then that is the heart that is heedless of God Almighty, expelled from the nearness of God Almighty.
[ Imagination of the reality of knowledge ]
So look, may God grant you success in the heart according to what we have mentioned, and see whether you make it knowledge, then it is not valid, and if you say it is the intrinsic refinement of it, then there is no way. But it is a cause, just as the appearance of the known to the heart is a cause, and if you say the cause that brings about the known in the heart, then there is no way, and if you say the example imprinted in the soul from the known, which is the perception of the known, then there is no way. If you are asked, “What is knowledge,” then say, “The realization of what is perceived.” [Page 92 of the Cairo edition] < /p>
As it is in itself, if attaining it is not impossible, and as for what is impossible to attain, then knowledge of it is incomprehensible, as Al-Siddiq said, the inability to attain perception is awareness, so he made knowledge of God incomprehensible, so know that, but it is incomprehensible in terms of gaining the mind, as Others know it, but they attained it from His goodness, generosity, and endowment , as those who know Him, the people of witness, know Him, not from the power of the mind in terms of its vision .
And since it has been proven that knowledge of a matter cannot be achieved without prior knowledge