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KNOW that if you turn to Taâ’lâ supposing that He is known and recognized, He will be unknown and unrecognized for you. Because this knowing and recognizing are the results of a commonplace familiarity, an imitation (taqlîd) through hearing and the common conventional terms. Such knowledge has no share from the haqiqah. That knowledge is limited and is far from explaining the absolute attributes of Allah. They may be a sort of title for the consideration of The Most Pure and Holy Essence (Dhât  Al-Aqdas).

But if you turn to Him by accepting Him as unknown, then the rays of His ma’rifat and the flashes and nûrs of the attributes of Allah will be unfolded to you.