Chapter Four: Negating Corporeality and Embodiment from the Creator, Glorified and Exalted is He

Whosoever follows the sayings of the Noble Masters, glorified is their glory, and examines the books of the great monotheists (al-Muwahhidun), will find them all negating corporeality and its constituent limbs from the Creator, transcending Him far above that with a great sublimation.

Among those is the saying of our Master, the Commander of the Faithful, in the Peak of Eloquence (Nahj al-Balaghah):

"And I bear witness that he who equates You with the distinct limbs of Your creation, and the joining together of their joints' sockets which are concealed by the governance of Your wisdom, has not bound his innermost conscience to the recognition of You, nor has certainty directly touched his heart to the effect that there is no equal to You."

And he, glorified is his glory, said:

"The One, not by the interpretation of numerical value; the Creator, not through the meaning of movement and exertion; the Hearing, not through an apparatus; and the Seeing, not through the introduction of an instrument."

And he, glorified is his glory, said: