we quoted from him in the chapter on Hūd, after his words: “He is the witness from the witness, and the witnessed from the witnessed. The world is His form, and He is the spirit of the world, governing it; thus He is the Great Man:

He is the whole cosmos,
And He is the One through whose being
My being subsists.
Thus I said: He is nourished;
My existence is His nourishment,
And we model ourselves upon Him.
If you look from one perspective,
In Him I seek refuge from Him.”

Then he said: “Because of this distress, He breathed. He therefore attributed the breath to the All-Merciful, for through it He bestowed mercy upon what the divine relations required to be brought into existence: the form of the world, which we have said is the outward aspect of the Real, since He is the Manifest. He is its inward aspect, since He is the Hidden. He is the First, for He existed when it did not; and He is the Last, for He was identical with it when it appeared. Thus the Last is identical with the Manifest, and the Hidden is identical with the First. He knows all things, because He knows Himself. When He brought the forms into existence within the breath, and the authority of the relations expressed by the Names became manifest, there was established