for we possess only names of names.
When names of names are declared above violation, declaring the complete servant above violation is still more deserving of inviolability because of the form, particularly the face. The face is the noblest of the human being’s outward parts, for it is the Presence of all inward and outward faculties. Everything’s face is its essence.
God’s Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace, passed a man beating the face of a slave of his. He told him, “Guard the face, for God created Adam upon His form.” It is the locus of turning toward God, unlike other directions: it is the greatest direction.
(Creation and Determination)
Among this Abode’s sciences is knowledge of the difference between creation and determination. Determination is the object of the Names the Governor and the Detailer, not other names. He said, “He governs the affair and details the signs” [al-Raʿd 13:2]. Both names fall within the encompassing sphere of the Name the Knower.
The Name the Powerful has no entry into this Presence. These three names return to the Real’s Essence, and the Real cannot be an object of power to Himself. The Name the Powerful has no ruling here: the Name the Determiner is what is considered in this rank.
Creation calls for the Name the Powerful rationally, and for the Name the Sayer through unveiling and revealed Law. We say “through unveiling” to distinguish here between the friend of God and the prophet, for each of these two men affirms this, contrary to what intellectual consideration gives intellect through its proof.
As the Name the Powerful differs from the Determiner in wording and meaning,
