and those who diverged in their discourse about the Lord’s attribute—the Most Great, whose majesty outstrips every description and estimation, leaving tongues powerless to elucidate His reality and minds unable to gauge His rank. His grandeur repels the intellects so that they find no passage forward and withdraw, humbled and spent. People were only commanded to observe and reflect upon what He created in due proportion. The question “How?” is posed only about something that once was not and then came to be; but as for the One who neither changes nor perishes, who has always been and has no equal, none knows His ‘how’ but He Himself. How could anyone comprehend the measure of Him who was never brought forth, who never dies, and never decays? How could any aspect of Him possess a limit or an end that a knower might grasp or a describer might circumscribe? He is the Manifest Truth—no truth is truer than He, and nothing is clearer than He. Proof: