of the Cause in the Effect, not the Primary Causer (Al-Mu'ill). This is among some of the stations of the 'Attribute' and the attribute of the light of guidance within him; he is unable to exceed his own degree."

The story of the ram and the mirror narrated by someone to the Beloved (Al-Habib)

I say: Someone whose truthfulness I trust related to me that he visited one of his brothers, and in his house there was a ram (kabsh) and a large mirror leaning against the wall. The ram saw its image in that mirror and thought it was another ram, so it attacked it. It saw that image attacking it back because of its own attack, so it struck the mirror with its horns and the mirror shattered. I have deemed this story good and recorded it as a parable to indicate that the disbeliever (Kafir) sees the existence of the Creator—which is represented by the purity of glass—and thinks it is like himself, so he strikes it. In doing so, he is the striker and the struck, while the Creator (Glory be to Him) never departed from His essence. Allah the Exalted spoke the truth: {They have hearts with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. Those are like cattle; rather, they are more astray. It is they who are the heedless} (Al-A'raf 179).

Among the collection of parables indicating how He (the Exalted) appears to humans as a human and to light as light, are the causes of His transformations—the increase after childhood, perfection during youth, and decrease during old age, and the occultation at death. These are the