In the opening doxology of the Elahi Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar establishes a foundational Sufi epistemological principle: the absolute transcendence and incomprehensibility of the Divine Essence (zat). Attar asserts that human intellect (kherad) is inherently limited and becomes 'dumb and mute' (gong o lal) when attempting to describe or grasp the divine reality. This limitation plunges the seeker's soul into a state of profound intellectual bewilderment (hayrah), symbolized by the classic Persian idiom of biting one's finger in astonishment (angosht dar dandan mandeh). By emphasizing that no one can know the core of His essence (konh-e zat), Attar prepares the spiritual traveler to abandon purely rationalistic inquiry in favor of direct spiritual contemplation.