Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moalla Bin Muhammad who said, ‘The Knowledgeable one asws was asked, ‘How does Allah azwj Know?’ He asws said: ‘He azwj Knows, and Desires, and Intends, and Determines, and Ordains, and Accomplishes. So He azwj Accomplishes what He azwj Ordains, and Ordains what He azwj Determines, and Determines what He azwj Intends. So, in His azwj Knowledge was the Desire, and in His azwj Desire was the Intention, and in His azwj Intention was the Pre-Determination, and in His azwj Pre-determination was the Ordainment, and in His azwj Ordainment was the Accomplishment. And the Knowledge was precedent upon the Desire, and the Desire is second, and the Intention is third, and the Pre-determination occurs upon the Ordainment by the Accomplishment. Thus, for Allah azwj Blessed and High is the Change of Allah azwj ’s Decision (الْبَدَاءُ) with regards to what He azwj Knows when He azwj Desires. Regarding what He azwj Intends for the Pre-determination of the things, so there is no Change in the Decision. Thus the knowledge regarding the known is before its coming into being, and the Desire regarding the desired is before its reality, and the Intention regarding the intended is before its establishment, and the Determination of these information is before it detail and it’s arriving into visibility and time. And the Ordainment is by the Accomplishment, the conclusion from the deeds with the embodiments which can be felt by the sensory perception from the ones with the colours, and smell, and weight, and measurement, and what creeps and crawls from the humans, and Jinn, and birds, and wild animals and other than that from what can be felt by the sensory perceptions. So, for the Blessed and High there is the Change of Decision (الْبَدَاءُ) in it from what there is no physical reality to it. So when the physical reality occurs, the concept of the sensed, so there is no Change of Decision (الْبَدَاءُ), and Allah azwj Does whatever He azwj so Desires to. So by the Knowledge, the things are known before their coming into being; and by the Desire are recognised their qualities, and their limits, and He azwj Established these before their manifestations; and by the Intention He azwj Distinguished their selves with regards to their colours and their qualities; and by the Determination Measured out their strengths, and Recognised their beginnings, and their endings; and by the Ordainment, He azwj Clarified to the people of their places and Indicated upon these; and by the Accomplishment, Explained their reasons, and Clarified their matters. And that is the Determination of the Mighty, the Wise.
Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.