[Until his saying]: 'This is the Judgment (al-Muhkam) of the doctrine of Sidi Abu Abd Allah [al-Khasibi] and the believers who followed him. Whoever has accepted and believed it to be the truth has no right to dispute, doubt, or argue regarding it; and in such a case, he has no right to falsely claim it [this doctrine] 1 . Had the Form in which He manifests been 'other' than Him, they would never have known Him.'
He says in the text of the Second Fatwa: 'We have seen the reliable authorities of this Monotheist Sect following Sidi Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn bin Hamdan—peace be upon him—making his Epistle (al-Risala) the constitution for the people of faith. We have seen that the reference is to its explicit and clear judgments, which he guaranteed therein, alongside his testimony that he took it upon himself not to conceal anything he knew. The explicit part of his creed is that the Visual Form is the Universal Goal, and that the Inaccessible Unseen—which is barred from [intellectual] encompassment and perception—is the very same Witnessed Reality manifested in existence for the People of Witnessing (Ahl al-Shuhud).'
And he [the Sheikh] says: 'The Human Veil (al-Hijab al-Bashari) is the Guidance (al-Huda) and the Light that comes with it; and the