
Al-Junaid about knowledge and the knower. He said that the color of water is the color of his vessel, that is, he is created with the morals of God so that it is as if he is him and what he is is him and he is him. The knower according to the group is the one who feels his own awe and tranquility and does not have a relationship distracting from him and that he makes the beginning of knowledge for God and the end of it what is infinite and neither truth nor falsehood enters his heart and that It was necessary for him to be absent from himself because the remembrance of the truth took over, so he does not bear witness to anyone other than God and does not return to anyone else. He lives by his Lord, not in his heart, and if knowledge enters his heart, it corrupts his existing conditions by turning them back to Him, the Almighty, not by eliminating them, for they are with them, as God Almighty said about Bilqis’ saying, “Indeed, kings are kings.” If they enter a town, they ruin it and m