state to state and from one affair to another is as the Exalted said: {Every day He is in a [new] affair} (Al-Rahman 29).

For were it not that the location of these transformations and attributes is within the observers, He would not have shown them His primordial Essence—which is singular and detached from all things—through such transformation and the diversity decreed for each according to their measure, from one attribute to another—each attribute being the opposite of the other. This is just as the staff of Moses transformed, by the power of the Exalted, from the attribute of a staff to the attribute of a serpent, and then returned to its original state; yet it was nothing but a staff and no other. Its swallowing of what the magicians produced is among the states that indicate the transformation of sights and their fluctuation when we see the existence of the Creator and all the worlds of light with human attributes, their states, and their diversities. It proves that these attributes and diversities arise from the fluctuation of sights and hearts, while in reality, they have never departed from their luminous state.

This indicates the fluctuation of hearts and sights, not the transformation of the Creator. Just as the magicians did not transform the enchanted objects from their original state, but rather flipped the sights with their magic, likewise He—Glorified be He—flips the hearts and sights by His Mighty Power while His Essence never transformed at all. And if the magician is able to flip the sights with his magic and show the