and this is contrary to my doctrine and my method, and the method of the sheikhs from the people of monotheism, the past ones, may Allah illuminate their faces, and the remaining ones, may Allah perpetuate their guardianship, because it is false and impossible, and this is the saying of the ignorant ones.

And whenever we said that concerning Allah, we would have obtained the worship of the unseen and floundering in doubt and suspicion, and we would have descended into the status of a sinful entity, and denied the meaningness, and contradicted our examplar and from his path we walked and by his speech we understood jurisprudence, for if it were not for him we would have been ignorant toward Allah, glory be to Him and He is Exalted, may Allah gather us in his group, and bring us a patience in his epistle, for it is with us the constitution, and to it we return in all matters, and to it we dispute, and by it you judge, because he did not leave for a speaker after it.

So the seen, manifest form as an anz'a bateen: it is as our master Abu 'Abd Allah al-Husayn bin Hamdan al-Khasibi, may Allah honor his station, said regarding it: it is He in creation, affirmation, vision, truth, and certainty.