How can it be conceived that something veils Him since….

He is the One who manifests everything?

He is the one who is manifest through everything?

He is the One who is manifests in everything?

He is the Manifest to everything?

He was the Manifest before the existence of anything?

He is more manifest than anything?

He is the One alongside of whom there is nothing?

He is nearer to you than anything else?

Were it not for Him, the existence of everything would not have been manifest?

(From the Al-Ḥikam by Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari)