-- provisional translation
In the Name of God, the Inaccessible, the Most Holy
Praise and sanctification are due to the regal substance of
holiness, glory, and majesty, Who has existed eternally and will continue to
exist in the being of His own Essence, Who has always been and always will be
exalted in His own eternity, far above the comprehension of all things. He did
not create the sign of His knowledge within any other being other than by means
of the incapacity of all things to know Him; nor did He shine forth upon any
other thing other than through His own Self. He has, therefore, always been
lifted high above association with any other thing, and He brought all things
into existence in order that they might all confess before Him on the Day of
Resurrection within the being of their true selves that He has neither peer nor
equal, nor rival, nor likeness, nor similitude.
No, He has been and remains alone in the dominion of His own
Godhood. He has been and remains glorified in the sovereignty of His own
Lordship. Nothing else has ever recognized Him as He deserves to be recognized,
nor can anything ever hope to do so, for whatever mention of existence they
might apply to Him would itself have already been created by the sovereign
power of His own Will, and He Himself would already have shone forth on it with
His own Self upon the exalted heights of His Throne. He created the sign of His
knowledge within the depths of all things in order that they might be sure that
He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden, the Creator and the
Sustainer, the Powerful and the Knowing, the Hearing and the Seeing, the One
Who Buries and the One Who Raises the Dead, the Giver of Life and the Giver of
Death, the Mighty and the Inaccessible, the Exalted and the All-Highest. He it
is Who has never guided and will never guide anyone unless it be to the
exaltation of His glorification and the sublimity of His praise and the
inaccessibility of His Oneness and the elevation of His magnification.
