بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

Nahjolbalaghe/sermon 1

 human inability of knowing Allah

Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers

whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators

and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so

,whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate

and the divers of understanding cannot reach; He

,for whose description no limit has been laid down

,no eulogy exists

.no time is ordained and no duration is fixed

,He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence

dispersed winds through His Compassion

.and made firm the shaking earth with rocks