image of the Crescent that is placed atop minarets, because the Messenger of Allah commanded it, saying (PBUH): 'Place the image of the crescent on the tops of minarets, for it resembles the image of the Exalted Lord.' It would also be permissible for us to depict the images of the sun, the moon, the stars, and other spiritual, nominal, and human manifestations, and to believe in their images just as the idolaters believe in their idols.

I also say: He who permits belief in the images of these outward acts of worship and their outward performance as a matter of religious practice in seclusion (al-khulwāt), believing himself to be correct, must then:

Believe in these outward fires, because Allah the Almighty manifested in the attribute of fire and spoke to Moses (PBUH) from it.

Believe also in this glass lamp, because Allah the Almighty struck a parable with it to indicate His luminous existence, just as He struck for us the parables with the outward forms of these acts of worship by the saying of the Almighty: {Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is like a niche within which is a lamp; the lamp is within glass...} (Al-Nūr: 35).

He must also believe in the Pen (al-Qalam), the Tablet (al-Lawḥ), the Throne (al-ʿArsh), the Chair (al-Kursī), and in the Rooster and the Ten Hens, according to the saying of the Almighty: {Nūn. By the Pen and what they transcribe} (Al-Qalam: 1), and the saying of our Sheikh in his poetry: