The idolater said: "A densified form was seen, yet you mentioned that He is contrary to that, which prevented the looker from the reality of the spectacle."

The Muslim said: "Likewise the sun: you see it, and you are correct in seeing it and truthful in witnessing it. But if you intend to see it with the eye of your insight, contemplate it, measure it with your mind, and know its essence with your thought, you would be incapable of that due to the greatness of its state and the magnitude of its significance. You see it as the greatest of lamps, but if you ponder the knowledge regarding it, you would know it is many times greater than that, such that you cannot limit it. If you are veiled by the [physical] look at it, you are incapable of reaching the perception of its essence. If you intend to ponder its rotation, you are incapable, for anything that rotates, its rotation must be one of several ways: either it rotates of itself and its rotation has an end, so that when its course ends it settles—and we find no end to its rotation. Or it rotates by a mover—then likewise the mover must have a mover moving him, and the matter continues into an infinite chain. Or it rotates by an impulse like the flight of an arrow, or pulled like a beast. He who measures it is incapable of its measurement, and he who sees it is incapable of perceiving it—yet it is present and witnessed. The Creator — may He be exalted — is present and witnessed; so, if you infer Him by His actions and contemplate His miracles and His power, you negate forms and densification from Him and establish His existence and His vision."

The idolater said: "What called Him to appear while He is capable of guiding the world to His gnosis? Also, He sent the Messengers and supported them." The Muslim said: "If He had not appeared to the world, He would not have been known or established. If He is not known, the proof is not established against the denier for his denial, for he denied what he did not know. Likewise, the acknowledger: if he acknowledged what did not appear, was not known, and was not witnessed, he would be a nullifier in his acknowledgment, a liar, and