of a thing does entail knowing its definition and reality, whether in nonexistence or existence. Otherwise you have not known it.
All things are witnessed by the Real in their state of nonexistence. Were this not so, He would not have singled out some for existence rather than others, for in sheer nonexistence containing no fixed entities there is no differentiation for witnessing, unlike the nonexistence of possible things.
Knowledge distinguishes things from one another and separates some from others. This is what is expressed as His witnessing and specifying them. He sees them with His eye, although they are described by nonexistence. They are not nonexistent for God the Real in respect of His knowledge of them.
Likewise a human inventor forms within himself the image of what he wishes to invent. He then brings it forth, so that its own entity appears to it and it is described by concrete existence. In its state of nonexistence it was described by existence in mental existence in our case, and existence in knowledge in God’s case[11]. The appearance of things is thus from existence to existence, from existence in knowledge to concrete existence. The impossible, which is sheer nonexistence, contains no entities to be distinguished.
This is some of what is contained in the supplication for seeking God’s choice. As for “Make it easy for me,” he means the causes that are signs and indications of obtaining what is sought.
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(The context distinguishes a thing’s being established in knowledge from its appearance in concrete existence. The interpretation of seeking God’s choice is built on this distinction.)
