From the same Most Merciful is His saying: He is God, besides whom there is no god, the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. This is the unification of knowledge, and it is from the unification of identity, and it is its unification in terms of distinction, because he distinguished between the unseen and the witnessed, and combined knowledge and mercy, and this can only be Concerning worldly knowledge, which is the knowledge that benefits its possessor, he said regarding his servant Khidr, “We gave him mercy from Us,” which is his saying, “The Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.” Then he said, “And We taught him knowledge from Us,” from his saying, “Knower of the Unseen and the Witnessed.” So the knowledge of mercy is with him, gentleness and kindness, and it is from Him, and the flexible branch is the kind, and gives from Him a reward. A great opinion So His greatness is, We have not sent you, and He was not sent except with k