'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful' Mercy and justice are for what the expression by mercy necessitated, regarding what was from the manner of speaking with greatness, from His saying: 'from Us' to His saying: 'from your Lord.' That is, the One who is good to you by sending you and sending every prophet who came before you. For indeed, their messages were to spread the lights among the servants and to establish the laws among the servants, until the hearts were illuminated and the souls found tranquility with what they became accustomed to from the law of the laws and the preparation of the religions. So the ways of the Lord became easy for the generalization of your message until your lights filled the horizons. Thus, you were the result of all who preceded you from the companions. And when the message necessarily involves hearing and knowledge, He said: 'Indeed, He is' that is, alone 'the Hearing.' That is, He is the Living, the Willing, 'the Knowing.' So He is the Able, the Seeing, the Speaker. He hears what His messengers say and what is said to them, and everything that can be heard, even if it is in a manner that others cannot hear, such as the internal speech and others, which is in relation to our hearing as the relation of what you hear from speech to the hearing of the deaf. And His hearing is not like our hearing, but it is related to the heard things as they are before their existence, just as His knowledge is related to the known things as they are before their being.