everyone sees Him according to the measure of his station of light and other than it, so among them are those who see Him near, and among them are those who see Him far.
And had it been mentioned and pointed to Him that there is a deity other than Him, al-Khasibi would have mentioned it and pointed to it, and the proof would have stood upon it just as this seen person described, and he denied from Him all of the fives by which He manifested, and clarified that He is the Lord of the worlds.
And my master Abu al-Mata' Ali bin Muhammad bin the Imam al-Hadi, may Allah guard him, recited to me for our master the Prince of the Believers, majestic is His mention: 1
I am the Eternal who does not cease Throughout the course of time, and I annihilate centuries
And I run matters with their rulings And by the measure of My will to be
The tyrants of the earliest times witnessed it Just as the latest times witnessed it