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The human mind does not have the scope to measure the grandeur of Taâ’lâ, weigh up His perfections, or find the means to judge His attributes. It is not possible in any aspect. Man can only grasp the attributes that pertain to His Jalâl through a nûr attained by way of tafakkur at the degree of witnessing the artful creation of As-Subhân Taâ’lâ and through ma’rifat aquired from what is manifested from all His artful works and encapsulated in all His actions. Yes, a particle can only be a mirror, not a criterion.

If you have understood these matters, know that Al-Wâjib Taâ’lâ cannot be compared with contingent beings because the difference1 between them is like the distance between the ground and the Pleiades. Surely you can see that it is because their quwwa al-wâhimah dominates over their minds through this false comparison, how the Naturalists, the Mu'tazilites and the Majûsî (Zoroastrians) attributed an actual effect to causes, and the creation of the actions of animals to themselves and the creation of sharr to something other than Taâ’lâ.

Due to their wahm, they think, “How could Allah Taâ’lâ lower Himself to create these base matters and ugly things despite His grandeur, sublimity and freedom from defect?” How did they make the mind enslaved by such a wahm? But alas! This wahm also dominates over mu’mins by means of waswasa. So be careful to avoid it!