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The Knowledge of the Truth (Ḥaqíqat) has three pillars—

 (1) Knowledge of the Essence and Unity of God.

 (2) Knowledge of the Attributes of God.

 (3) Knowledge of the Actions and Wisdom of God.

The Knowledge of the Law (Sharí`at) also has three pillars—

 (1) The Koran.

 (2) The Sunna.

 (3) The Consensus (ijmá`) of the Moslem community.

Knowledge of the Divine Essence involves recognition, on the part of one who is reasonable and has reached puberty, that God exists externally by His essence, that He is infinite and not bounded by space, that His essence is not the cause of evil, that none of His creatures is like unto Him, that He has neither wife nor child, and that He is the Creator and Sustainer of all that your imagination and intellect can conceive.

Knowledge of the Divine Attributes requires you to know that God has attributes existing in Himself, which are not He nor a part of Him, but exist in Him and subsist by Him, e.g. Knowledge, Power, Life, Will, Hearing, Sight, Speech, etc.