Kitab-i-Iqan/Page8/GPT4 155

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Now consider this: if someone does not attain the bounty of divine meeting and understanding the manifestations of truth on the day of God's revelation, can they truly be regarded as a scholar, even if they have spent a thousand years studying and have acquired all the bounded exoteric sciences? It is evidently clear that such a person would not be truly recognized as a scholar of the divine.

However, if someone has not seen a word of knowledge but has achieved this great honor, they are undoubtedly counted among the divine scholars because they have reached the farthest ends of knowledge, its culmination, and its ultimate purpose.