Hadith 28

u mean, it would point upon its meaning calling to the (item) described by it. Do you understand it? ’
He said, ‘Yes’. Then he said, ‘O my chief! Will you inform me about the beginning (origination), is it a creation or a non-creation? ’
Al-Reza-asws said: ‘But He-azwj Created is as static, nor aware of its stillness, and rather it became a creation because it was a newly occurring thing, and Allah-azwj is the One-azwj Who Caused it to occur, so it became a creation of His-azwj, and rather it is Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic and His-azwj creation, there is not third between the two, nor any third other than these two. So whatever Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Created, would not return to being its creation and the creation has been still, and moving, and different, and combined, and knows, and allegorical, and all what a limit occurs upon, so it is a creation of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. And know that all what the sensory perceptions feel for you, so it is a meaning of realisation of the perceptions, and all what is felt points upon what Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Made for it in its realising and the understanding from the heart with entirety of that, all of it. And know that the One-azwj is He-azwj Who is standing without a measurement nor any limitations. He-azwj Created the creation measured by limitations and measurements, and the One Who Created the two creations, the determination and the measure, and there isn’t in any one of these a colour, nor weight, nor taste. So, He-azwj Made one of these realised with the other and Made them as two realising with their own selves, and He-azwj did not Create anything individual standing by itself besides other for that which He-azwj wanted to be pointed upon Himself-azwj and prove His-azwj existence. Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted is Individual, One, there is no second with Him-azwj to Stand Him‑azwj, nor support Him-azwj, nor bring Him-azwj into existence, and the creation is holding part of it with a part by the Permission of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Desire. And rather, the people are differing in this subject to the extent that they are lost and bewildered and they are seeking the to be finished off from the darkness with the (help of) the darkness in their describing Allah-azwj with their own descriptions. Thus, they increase in remoteness from the truth. And had they described Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic with His-azwj own Attributes, and described the creatures with their descriptions, they would be saying with the understanding and the certainty, and they would not have differed when they sought from that what they are confused in, puzzled. And Allah-azwj Guides the one He Desires, to the Straight Path [10: 25]’’. [30]