nor does He manifest except through His Essence. He manifests neither through a [material] form nor a likeness. Those forms and manifestations which He displayed to the observers are He—based on what He has guided us to in this treatise, saying: "He manifested them so that Vision might be established, Certainty might become valid, and [the Truth] might be found and fixed within the Intellect; thus it neither shifts nor vanishes." Yet, He is not they—not at all, neither in terms of combination, encompassment, nor confinement.

By this statement—may God ennoble his station—he demonstrated that the Visual Form is the Unique Meaning (al-Ma’na al-Ahad).

He says: 'The Unique (al-Ahad), the One (al-Wahid), and the Oneness (al-Wahdaniyya) represent the Meaning, the Name, and the Gate. This is the utmost limit of clarity, clarification, explanation, and eloquence. These are the Three Existences regarding which a servant is only held accountable for them and for their gnosis.