The meaning of the saying of the Prophet Muhammad
(God bless you and give you peace)
Whoever knows their self, knows their Lord In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful Praise belongs to God, before whose oneness there is no before unless the before is It and after whose singleness there is no after unless the after is It. It is, and there is not with Him any before or after, above or below, closeness or distance, how or where or when, time or moment or duration, manifested existence or place. And It is now as It has always been. It is the one without oneness and the single without singleness. It is not composed of name and named, for It’s name is It and It’s named is It and there is no name or named other than It. It is the first without firstness and the last without lastness. It is the apparent without appearance and the hidden without hiddenness. I mean that It is the very existence of the letters of the names the first and the last, the apparent and the hidden. There is no first or last, apparent or hidden except It, without the letters which form these divine names becoming It and without It becoming these letters. — Ibn ‘Arabi
