thereby rendering Him grand through embodiment (tajsīdan). Rather, He is large in status and grand in authority."

Reflect, then, upon how he negated from Him embodiment (tajsīd), physical extension (tajsīm), and all instruments, apparatuses, physical limbs, and movements. Reflect also upon how he described His greatness, glorified is He, as not being through the culmination of boundaries—which would render His greatness an embodiment—but rather His largeness, glorified is He, is through the loftiness of His status, and likewise His greatness is through the grandeur of His authority. His largeness is not the largeness of a body (jism), nor is His greatness, glorified is He, the grandeur of a physical corpse (jasad).

The essence of what is understood from the sayings of our Master, glorified is his glory, is that he negated from His Supreme Essence all bodily compositions and physical limbs.

And our Master as-Sadiq, glorified is his glory, said:

"Worshipping Allah through physical forms (al-abdān) is like the worship of Satan."

And our Master Abu Shu'ayb, glorified is his glory, said: