[In that case], we would have been like those others of whom it was said: "{And if you asked them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth?' they would surely say, 'Allah.' Say, '[All] praise is [due] to Allah'; but most of them do not know}.1
And he says [quoting a verse]:
'Represent the Reality for me in an Image,
As a Shadow recounts the object within the Light.'
He means that the Witnessed Visual Form has manifested to us the Reality of the Essence.
And he says [quoting another verse]:
'And the Midday Sun rose,
Upon me, from the face of the Moon.'
They refer by the Sun to the Form of Majesty and Omnipotence (Surat al-Jalal wa al-Qahr)—the Essence veiled from [intellectual] perception; and by the Moon to the Form of Beauty and Grace (Surat al-Jamal wa al-Lutf)—which appeared through Mercy and Intimacy (al-Inas) to every genus among the genera of angels and men.