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.
The apparent difficulty: If human comprehension is limited, why undertake scholarly interpretation of revelation?
Resolution: Comprehending God’s essence exhaustively differs from understanding meaningful revealed language. One can interpret sound revelation through language and evidence while acknowledging the limits of human cognition.
Inference to avoid: Submission to revelation does not require accepting every human claim without scrutiny, and cognitive limits do not end scholarship.
Application: Accept what authentic revelation establishes about the unseen without claiming unsupported details of its modality.