We have seen no footing for intellect in its turning
within the Presence of the Essence, in affirming His oneness.
(The Questions’ Objects and Declaring Incomparability)
Know that one does not ask of something mentioned, “Does it exist or not?” unless its existence is hidden. One whose existence is manifest to every eye is beyond the question “whether,” for it is interrogation, and interrogation concerns only ignorance of the state of what is questioned. Likewise “why” is asked only of something caused; “what” only of something defined; and “how” only of what admits states.
The Real is declared free of these matters understood from these questions. His Essence is declared free of them: they are not admissible concerning Him, whether for one who holds existence to be God or one who does not. One holding existence to be God sees that the ruling of what the Real appears through consists only of the rulings of possible things’ entities.
These questions therefore concern only what deserves them. The Real’s entity is sought only insofar as it appears through a possible entity’s ruling. The possible entity is what is sought, while the seeker is confused. For one not holding existence’s very entity to be the Real, these questions are likewise not admissible concerning Him.
(Becoming Full as Vicegerency’s Similitude)
Returning, we say: becoming full, which God established as a similitude within the cosmos for His self-disclosure in ruling within it, is the divine vicegerent appearing within the cosmos through God’s names and rulings, and mercy and subjugation
