knows it).
He said:
“This statement is an explicit confession that his knowledge is deficient, and that Allah—blessed and exalted be He—is mightier and more knowing than he, utterly different from him and far above him. By saying ‘no one,’ he made the wording all-inclusive, embracing every creature. Then he added, ‘nor the angels,’ even though the angels possess of Allah’s knowledge what the inhabitants of the earth do not. Next he said, ‘nor the Son,’ although the Son was granted a power that no one else has. His very words therefore bear clear witness against him: he does not know everything that Allah knows; he knows only what Allah has taught him, made known to him, and assigned to him. Because his knowledge falls short of encompassing all things, he cannot be as they portray him—Lord, God, or of one essence with the Father. Exalted is Allah, the Creator of all things, high above what they ascribe to Him. Had he truly been a god, as they claim, he would have known all that Allah knows of every matter, hidden or manifest. Nor can this meaning be dismissed by resorting, when questioned, to the claim that the words were directed to the nāsūt (human nature) rather than the lāhūt (divine nature).”
I said:
“His aim in this is that he openly declared that no one knows it, and then he singled out…"