unlike people. Hence He, exalted is He, said, ‘God witnesses that there is no god except He, and the angels,’ then concerning people said, ‘and those possessing knowledge’ [Āl ʿImrān 3:18]. He did not leave it unrestricted as He did with angels.
Here it is knowledge of oneness, not existence. The whole world knows existence, not oneness, neither in Essence nor rank, although the associator gives Him the highest rank while positing sharing in the meaning of rank.
It contains knowledge of what no creature can deny: the possible being's need for what gives preponderance. It contains knowledge of the covenants and pledges that may be broken and those that may not.
(Possibility and Affirming Truth)
It contains knowledge of the denial that first occurs to estimation concerning someone claiming to exist without father or mother. One believing in Adam's existence, peace be upon him, denies it of a particular person resembling him in form, without hesitating to deny him or reject his statement and what he brings, although it is possible in the affair itself. Both those affirming the world's origination and those affirming its eternity acknowledge its possibility.
It contains knowledge of what angels impart of knowledge when they enter upon the felicitous within their abodes; and knowledge of distinguishing this world from the next
