Our companions differed regarding newly created knowledge as to whether it relates to infinite information or not. So whoever prevents God’s essence from being known is prevented from that, and whoever does not prevent that from that does not prevent it from occurring, but what has been conveyed to us is that it happened to someone in this world, and I do not know what it will be in the Hereafter. We have learned that Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, knew the knowledge of the first and the last. He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said about himself that he will praise God tomorrow on the Day of Resurrection with the words of Muhammad. When he asks God Almighty to open the door to intercession, he said that God Almighty taught him it at that time but does not know it now. If someone else had known it, he would not have believed it.

His saying, “I knew the knowledge of the first and the last, ”

And he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon