18:65 And We taught him knowledge from Us.
“When someone is able to sacrifice his attributes to the holy Shariah, We will engrave the secrets of the knowledges of the Haqiqah on his heart: And We taught him knowledge from Us.” The one who speaks of this knowledge is the realizer, who speaks from finding. Light is apparent from his words, familiarity on his face, and servanthood in his conduct. A lightning flash of the Greatest Light has shone in his heart, the lamp of his recognition has been lit, and the unseen secrets have been unveiled to him. Such was Khi?r in the work of the ship, the boy, and the wall.
Take care not to have the opinion that Khi?r was greater than Moses the Speaking Companion, even if Moses was sent to Khi?r's grammar school. No, of course not, for in the Court of Inaccessibility, after Muṣ?afā no prophet has the same joyful expansiveness and proximity as Moses. Nonetheless, He made Khi?r the furnace of Moses' discipline. Thus, when someone wants to take silver to pureness, he puts it in a fiery furnace. This is because of the superiority of silver over the fiery furnace, not because of the superiority of fire and furnace over silver.
Then there are Khi?r's words,