And just as it is obligatory for us to deem the sight as false and believe in the Reality and the Essence—that this ice, snow, and hail are each nothing but this water—likewise, it is obligatory for us to deem the sight as false and believe in the Reality and the Essence that each of these human and luminous manifestations, which the Pre-eternal Meaning (Al-Ma’na al-Qadim) has shown by His power to those looking toward His Essence—which is sanctified from perception, transformation, and diversity. These manifestations only exist because of the existence of the created beings (Al-Muhdathin) and their various types, just as this ice, snow, and other forms only exist because of the existence of coldness and its varying degrees. Indeed, these attributes and transformations are our own attributes and transformations; their location is within the observers, not in His Essence (the Exalted), just as these transformations we see in pure water are our own attributes and transformations, and their location is in the one looking at the water, not in the water itself.

The proof of this is the validity of our firm belief, passed down from the Masters of the Prophets and those who follow them from the worlds of light, from the revealed Books, and from His (the Exalted) words and actions that indicate His Essence in both the inward and outward Books—that He is Powerful over all things and sanctified from all things. He is too Majestic for transformation and has never departed from His essence, even if He appeared to the vision. His showing of transformation from