the limit of the Real is unknown, for His limit can be known only by knowing the limit of every form. This is impossible to attain; hence delimiting the Real is impossible.”

Ibn ‘Arabī also said in his Fusūs, in the chapter “A Wisdom of Exaltation in a Word of Moses”:

“Likewise, the Real governs the world only through itself or through its form. He governs it only through itself, just as a child depends upon being brought into existence by a parent, results upon their causes, conditioned things upon their conditions, effects upon their causes, things indicated upon their proofs, and actualized things upon their realities. All of this belongs to the world and constitutes the Real’s governance within it. Thus, He governs it only through itself.

“As for our expression ‘or through its form’—meaning the form of the world—by this I mean the Most Beautiful Names and the Most Exalted Attributes by which the Real names and describes Himself. No name by which He names Himself has reached us without our finding the meaning and spirit of that name in