The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expresssion which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
(Mawqif 132, p. 87)
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being... All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.
(Mawqif 287, p. 85)
Paraphrased: Allah is neither this nor that.
(Mawqif 30, p. 78)
Know however that God, in order to manifest Himself by His essence to His essence, has no need of creatures since, with relation to Essence, he is absolutely independent with respect to worlds and even with respect to His own names... On the other hand, when He manifests Himself with His names and His attributes -- which implies the manifestation of the effects -- He needs (huwa muftaqir) the creatures...
This relation is ... necessary in order that the divine Names, which are only distinguished by their effects, can be distinguished from one another. At the same time, the divine Names, by the one of their "faces" which is turned toward the Essence, are themselves totally autonomous with respect to worlds. In this respect, they are nothing other than the Essence itself and that is why each of them can be qualified and designated by all of the other Names in the same way as the Essence.
(Mawqif 103, pp. 114-115)
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