أَنَّ مُرَادَنَا بِالْعِلْمِ وَالْمَعْرِفَةِ وَاحِدٌ
By “knowledge” and “maʿrifah” here, we intend the same thing.
Scholarly disciplines sometimes draw technical distinctions between ʿilm and maʿrifah. In this context the terms share a broad meaning; a change of vocabulary therefore does not automatically create a fourth source of knowledge. Calling one experience “recognition” and another “knowledge” cannot, by itself, prove two separate epistemic methods.
Two levels of usage must be separated: ordinary semantic overlap and a deliberately defined specialist distinction. Equivalence in the first does not make every technical distinction in the second meaningless.