Be a gentle servant in calling His servant
To God, neither coarse nor harsh toward him.
How great the difference between one whose existence is preserved
And a preserver with no preserver over him!
Just as your Lord is ﴿Preserver over everything﴾ [Sabaʾ 34:21], He is preserved through everything, because He is known through things. Things preserve knowledge of Him for those who know Him. Knowledge is His attribute, and knowledge is the known. The known gave Him knowledge of itself. The known preserves knowledge for Him and removes knowledge from Him. He changes according to its changes. God thus preserves His knowledge in respect of what is known to Him.
Preserving the Real is marked,
And preserving creation is known.
What goes beyond this
Is flawed and imagined.
(Preserving Knowledge and Preserving Existence)
The objects of knowledge preserve the knowledge of them for the one knowing them. In reality there is no knower but God. The Real preserves for the world the relation of existence to it, preserving its existence for it. We said ‘the objects of knowledge’ because the Real is known to Himself, and creatures are known to God, while the Real is not known to creatures. We thus know what the Real preserves and what creation preserves.
If you add that the knower preserves the known, this saying is flawed, and it is a supposition
