breath, since he is a governor occupied with managing what God has put in his charge.
He is heedless of being a knower of God, but this does not remove his description as a knower of God, even when the contrary, heedlessness or sleep, is present within the receptacle. There is never ignorance after knowledge, unless the knowledge arose through consideration of a rational proof. Such a thing is not knowledge in our view, since misgivings can reach its possessor, even if it agrees with knowledge. Knowledge is only that whose possessor admits no misgiving. This is nothing but knowledge through tastings, and that is what we call knowledge. “God speaks the right and guides the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].
Section Forty-Six: Reliance upon the Cosmos as the Book Inscribed upon the Outspread Parchment of Existence in the World of Bodies, Which Comes to Be from the Name God the Manifest
Know that this reliance is valid only for someone possessing knowledge through divine notification. We use this word for the cosmos, ʿālam, to make known that we intend it as a sign, ʿalāmah. Since it is established that existence is the Real’s very entity, and that the appearance of varied forms within it is a sign
