whatever it may be. What prevents it from being that very entity is what is called might and mightiness. God “speaks the truth, and He guides the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].
The Presence of Compelling Power, Belonging to the Name the Compeller
Compulsion is a principle encompassing all being:
you see only one compelled for another who is compelled.
Knowledge compels Him whom we used to magnify;
this is an exhalation from a stricken breast.
Without it, our entities would not have existed, nor appeared
our beings, some folded away and others unfolded.
(Compulsion Where Effects Can Be Received)
One who assumes the character of this Name is called the Servant of the Compeller. This Presence exercises compulsion over the mighty; it has no effect except upon them. Its Presence is tremendous in action. Yet it has no effect upon the mighty from the aspect of the meaning through which might belongs to things: it has no effect upon that. Rather, its effect upon the mighty is through their receptivity in that wherein they have no might. From there they receive effects. Know this.
Know that when the mighty one considers that through which he is mighty, and that it is impossible for him to receive an effect within it from that aspect, he does not know, while witnessing this, that within him there is something that can receive
