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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Epistle of Nasih al-Dawlah - Jaysh bin Muhammad bin Mahraz

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and they do not see their Creator except in His Anza'iyyah form by which He manifested in the Muhammadan dome in the past cycles and bygone eras, because they are lights, so they do not see the Creator except by lights, because this Muhammadan dome has a disclosure within it, so the worlds—both the higher and the lower—saw the form.

The higher: saw it as light, and the lower: saw it as a human, because the hearts and sights changed away from it.

And from what our master al-Khasibi, may Allah honor his station, narrated in his epistle until he reached his saying: "So He showed us that He is a light, and that He is a thing, and that He possesses the instrument of bodies, except that He is a light unlike lights, and a body unlike bodies, and an instrument unlike instruments, except that it is not seen except like bodies, forms, and instruments; were it not for that, existence would not be established and the vision would not be correct."

So the saying of al-Khasibi, may Allah honor his station, is convincing for him who understood that He has an instrument unlike the instruments of humans, except that He is seen and witnessed,

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