Just as it is permissible for us and obligatory for us to believe that these attributes which continue to appear to those looking into this water are only the attributes of those looking at it, not the attributes of the water—while the water remains in its state and essence—then it is more obligatory for us to believe and trust that these attributes which we continue to see in the existence of our Creator are our own attributes, fitting for us, returning to us, and referring back to us.

For Allah is the Necessary Existent (Wajib al-Wujud), necessarily sanctified from resembling celestial or earthly beings, according to the saying of the Exalted: {There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing} (Al-Shura 11).

And just as those looking at this pure water see their images within it corresponding to them—moving as they move, still as they are still, changing as they change, colored as they are colored, increasing as they increase, decreasing as they decrease, present as they are present, absent when they are absent, and ceasing as they cease—likewise, those looking at the existence of their Master see their images within His manifestation corresponding to them.

This parable indicates the Sanctification (Tanzih) of the Creator (the Exalted), the sanctification of all other worlds of light, and the validity of deeming the [physical] sight as false while establishing the Reality and the Essence (Al-Jawhar), as was recorded on the authority