As for the knowledge of the coexistence of the two cognates, know that Abu Saeed Al-Kharraz was asked, “How do you know God?” He said, “By combining the two opposites,” he recited, “He is the first and the last.” That is, He is the first to identify what is last and apparent in terms of what is hidden, because the truth in his case is one, and every two opposites are cognates, and this is not understood. From the power of the mind, for the power of the mind does not give it. Rather, this is realized from the station behind the stage of the mind, which was from that stage. He gave the duties their obligation, the permissible things their permissibility, the impossible ones their referral, and the singularities their singularity. He is the one who made the one one, just as He made the necessary obligatory by giving it its obligation, and it is not in the power of the mind to realize what we have mentioned. Wherever he thought, this is true, divine, not rational knowledge. If two opp