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as You have praised Yourself. "This does not mean the inability
to express what I comprehend but rather an admission of
the inability to comprehend the Essence of the Majesty of
Allah. For this reason again someone said: "No one truly knows
Allah except Allah Himself." Abu-Bakr al-Siddiq said, "Praise
be to Allah who has not given men a way to know Him except
through their inability to know Him." Let us now, however,
stop this kind of discussion and go back to the main purpose,
namely that one of these categories comprises that which
the minds fail to comprehend, such as the spirit and some
of the attributes of Allah. Perhaps the Prophet refered to something
of the same nature when he said, "His cover is Light,
if He reveals it, indeed, the Exaltation of His Face will
burn everything of His creation that His Sight reaches." (Darwish
to express what I comprehend but rather an admission of
the inability to comprehend the Essence of the Majesty of
Allah. For this reason again someone said: "No one truly knows
Allah except Allah Himself." Abu-Bakr al-Siddiq said, "Praise
be to Allah who has not given men a way to know Him except
through their inability to know Him." Let us now, however,
stop this kind of discussion and go back to the main purpose,
namely that one of these categories comprises that which
the minds fail to comprehend, such as the spirit and some
of the attributes of Allah. Perhaps the Prophet refered to something
of the same nature when he said, "His cover is Light,
if He reveals it, indeed, the Exaltation of His Face will
burn everything of His creation that His Sight reaches." (Darwish