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Speech, Hearer with Hearing and Seer With Seeing.
The tenth principle: Is that Allah - the High - is Knowledgeable with knowledge, Living with life,
Powerful
with power, Willer with will, Speaker with speech, Hearer with hearing, and Seeing with sight. He
has
the qualities of these ancient attributes.
To speak of a knower but without knowledge is like speaking of one who is wealthy but without
wealth,
or of knowledge without a knower, or a knower without something known. For knowledge, the knower,
and that which is known are inseparable just as murder, the murdered, and the murderer are
inseparable.
And just as it is impossible to conceive of a murderer without murder and the one murdered, or of
one
murdered without a murderer and murder, it is impossible to conceive of a knower without knowledge,
and of knowledge without something known, and of something known without a knower.
The tenth principle: Is that Allah - the High - is Knowledgeable with knowledge, Living with life,
Powerful
with power, Willer with will, Speaker with speech, Hearer with hearing, and Seeing with sight. He
has
the qualities of these ancient attributes.
To speak of a knower but without knowledge is like speaking of one who is wealthy but without
wealth,
or of knowledge without a knower, or a knower without something known. For knowledge, the knower,
and that which is known are inseparable just as murder, the murdered, and the murderer are
inseparable.
And just as it is impossible to conceive of a murderer without murder and the one murdered, or of
one
murdered without a murderer and murder, it is impossible to conceive of a knower without knowledge,
and of knowledge without something known, and of something known without a knower.