Conversely, those against whom the Word [of punishment] has been justified remained lost in illusion, veiled from Her presence and barred from Her knowledge.

[I witness] that He manifested to His creation as a Mercy and a Grace to them—so that those who perish might perish upon clear evidence, and those who live might live upon clear evidence. This was necessitated by the Divine Will in bringing the universe into existence exactly as it was in His prior Knowledge and Decree: so that souls might reach perfection through both the Intellectual (al-Ma'qul) and the Sensory (al-Mahsus).

And so that [the souls] might witness the Manifestation within Humanity, just as they witnessed it in the World of Light; and so that He might deal justly with the people of the Earth as He dealt justly with the people of Heaven, and grant equity to the people of the Earth as He granted equity to the people of Heaven. 'He is not questioned about what He does.'

[Continued from his final statement]: 'Indeed, His manifestation—Glory be to Him—is the stripping away of the Veil of Darkness from the sight of the beholder, so that he may witness of the Essence of Manifestation (Dhat al-Tajalli) according to his own capacity.