He [al-Harrani] says: "When you say 'It is He'—in affirmation, existence, truth, and certainty—you have indeed perfected the knowledge of the reality of the Image, which is [simultaneously] Manifest, Inward, and Stripped [of matter]."

He says: "We say, O brother pointed to by faith: When you say 'the Visible Image,' you have affirmed its sight and its falling under the sense of vision, thus associating it with [the category of] sensible, seen things."

"Yet you say after that: 'It has no reality, but was rather a delusion (Takh-yil) in the eyes of the beholders.'"

"By your claim, you have brought [the Image] into being and then negated it, by your own intent and choice, without knowledge or correspondence to the Meaning to which it is attributed. If you and your companions reflected on what you say, you would find that you have belied yourselves and your companions through your denial and ignorance. How could you place under the sense of sight that which has no reality or existence?"

"If you were demanded [to explain] that which you point to regarding the Visible Image, its true gnosis, and its lineage—and you assigned to it tribes, a genealogy, and a mosque that contains it,