" Geometrically speaking, the Intellect is a ray rather than a circle, it emanates from God rather than reflecting Him. „Allah is known to Himself alone“ say the Sufis; this saying, while it apparently excludes man from a direct and total knowledge, in reality enunciates the essential and mysterious divinity of pure Intellect; formulae of this kind are only fully understandable in the light of the often quoted hadith: „He who knows his soul knows his Lord. "

― Frithjof Schuon , Light on the Ancient Worlds: A New Translation with Selected Letters