of this to which he paid no heed?’ Each of them says this.
The third, the perfected knower, says something different from what they say. He knows the cause affecting each of them, and therefore knows of them what they do not know of themselves. Glory be to the Judge, the Just, who sets things in their proper places and assigns ranks to those who belong to them!
(Relations, the Appearance of Effects, and Receptivity)
Once you know this, you know a strange knowledge, a wonder of wonders, containing a secret that cannot be unveiled and should not be openly stated. God is jealous lest the servant reveal something like this. It is something required by existence, and is immensely beneficial.
The world appeared only through relations, and the world's reception of what it received, also from the world, occurred only through relations. Thus the one bringing into existence does so through relations, and the one receiving does so through relations. The ruling therefore belongs to them. You already know what relations are.
Through them my existence became sound, and through them
A relation to God became sound for engendered being.
To Him belongs thanks for the knowledge of relations
With which He singled me out as a gratuitous favor.
Through them felicity became sound within us,
And through them wretchedness became sound for the wretched.
