Rather, it means that the attribute through which the Name is unable to see its Worshiped Meaning except by it, attaches only to the Greatest Name. As for its Meaning—the Pre-eternal—it is transcendent above it, to the extent that the Name cannot see it as it is.

The proof for this is what came in Surah al-A'raf on the tongue of Moses, the one who spoke with Allah (peace be upon him): {He said: My Lord, show me [Yourself] that I may look at You. He said: You will never see Me} (Al-A'raf 143).

Meaning: he will never see Him as He is; rather, he sees Him from the aspect of the Attribute of the Name, the Form of the Veil, and the Quality of Oneness (Wahidiyya).

Our Illustrious Master (may Allah sanctify him) recorded in his treatise titled The Treatise of Splitting and Joining (Al-Fatq wa al-Ratq):

The Scholar (peace be upon him) was asked: Why was the Mim named the Veil (Hijab), and what is the rank of the Veil?

He said: Indeed, his Creator, the Pre-eternal (al-Azal), veiled the world—including the Luminous beings, the Mixed beings,