لَا تَبْلُغُهُ الْأَوْهَامُ وَلَا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَفْهَامُ.
Imaginations do not reach His reality, nor do understandings encompass Him.
وَلَا تَثْبُتُ قَدَمُ الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَّا عَلَى ظَهْرِ التَّسْلِيمِ وَالِاسْتِسْلَامِ
One’s footing in Islam is established through acceptance and surrender.
How the passages fit: Human imagination and intellect cannot fully grasp the divine reality. Recognition of this limit is paired with accepting sound revelation and submitting to its guidance.
Application: Reason has an important role in understanding a text, assessing claims and weighing evidence; it should not be treated as an instrument for exhaustive knowledge beyond revelation.
Limit of inference: Submission to revelation does not require accepting every unsupported human claim.