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Tenth: Enumerating the Most Beautiful Names and gaining knowledge of them is the foundation for knowing anything that can be known. Whatever is knowable apart from Him is either something He has created or something He has commanded—that is, it is knowledge of what He has brought into existence or knowledge of what He has legislated. Both creation and command proceed from His Most Beautiful Names, and they are bound to those Names in the same way that an effect3 is bound to its cause. Accordingly, the entire command has its source in His Names
(3) In manuscript Ṣ the reading is “irtibatan lil-muqtada” (in connection with what is required).
العاشر: إحصاءُ الأسماء الحسنى والعلمُ بها أصلٌ للعلم بكل معلوم، فإنِّ المعلومات سواه إمَّا أن تكون خلقًا له تعالى أو أمرًا، إمَّا علمٌ بما كونه، أو علمٌ بما شرعه. ومصدرُ الخلق والأمر عن أسمائه الحسنى، وهما مرتبطان بها ارتباط المقتضى٣ بمقتضيه، فالأمرُ كلهُّ مصدره عن أسمائه
٣ في (ص) "ارتباطًا للمقتضى "