Fifth: human beings differ in their capacity for knowledge across a range whose extremes cannot be precisely defined—far more than they differ in physical strength. Some can bring to mind more items of knowledge simultaneously than others can. People know of no fixed limit to this capacity beyond which they believe no human being could possibly go. Rather, above everyone possessed of knowledge is one more knowing, until this culminates in Allah Most High, as the early generations said.

Since human beings differ in knowledge and ability, and one person’s inability to attain the knowledge or perform the deeds that another can does not prevent him from believing that the other possesses those abilities—even though they are of the same kind and share the same essential nature—then, all the more, a person’s inability to attain the knowledge with which Allah Most High is described should not prevent him from