it indicates that it cannot be known and that this is not due to a deficiency in it but rather because this issue is in itself difficult for the minds to comprehend. however this is like an anomaly in their doctrine and the doctrine of all of them is that it is eternal and that in general it is inconceivable that an event could issue from the eternal without an intermediary at all.
دل على أنه لا يمكن أن يعرف وأن ذلك ليس لقصور فيه بل لاستعصاء هذه المسألة في نفسها على العقول، ولكن هذا كالشاذ في مذهبهم وإنما مذهب جميعهم أنه قديم وأنه بالجملة لا يتصور أن يصدر حادث من قديم بغير واسطة أصلا.