What does ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil mean?

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Definition ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil

ʿlmh taʿaal-aā shaamil according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

That is, concerning possible things and impossible things. Therefore, they said that what Allah the Most High knows is greater than what His power encompasses, for His power the Most High relates only to that which power can relate to, which is the possible, whereas knowledge relates to both the possible and the impossible. Thus, what He knows the Most High is greater than what His power encompasses. If you say: we do not concede that the knowledge of Allah the Most High encompasses both the possible and the impossible, because they said that the knowledge of Allah the Most High does not relate to the ranks of infinite numbers, since the ranks of numbers are infinite in His scientific existence the Most High, and if the knowledge of Him the Most High had related to them in detail, it would have necessitated their being infinite due to the running of the demonstration of bijection at that time, because those ranks and the ratio of bijection between them are known to Him the Most High according to what you have stated regarding the comprehensiveness of the knowledge of Allah the Most High of the possible and the impossible. We say: indeed, His knowledge which encompasses the possibles and the impossibles only encompasses what is not impossible to know, just as His comprehensive power only encompasses what is not impossible to exist, and the possibility of knowledge relating to infinite ranks in detail is disallowed.

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