God concerning what is objected to; he himself is not the objector. When that objection comes from God, the possessor of this tasting knows its wisdom and its rank.
The possessor of this state commands what is right, forbids what is wrong, and carries out the prescribed penalties, while witnessing the wisdom of all this and seeing it within the divine affairs witnessed by him. He witnesses them only at their engendering. This is the station of the possessor of this state.
(The Ranks of Witnessing the Affairs)
Among the people of God are also those who witness these affairs before the Real is engaged in them: those who witness the entities of possible beings in their nonexistence, as the Real witnesses them. For this reason the Real singles out for engendering whichever of them He singles out, rather than the other possible beings. The Real brings them into existence only according to what they are in their state of nonexistence, without increase or decrease.
Among the people of God are those who witness the affair before its appearance to sense perception—the other engendering—witnessing it within the Manifest Record, the Preserved Tablet that contains effacement and establishment. Everything within it therefore has a first engendering in inscription.
This unveiling is below the unveiling of one whom God shows the entities of possible beings according to what they will be in existence, who then judges through them as God judges concerning them.
There are many means of perceiving these affairs before their sensory appearance. The highest is what we have mentioned,
