"Whoever claims that he saw a part has fragmented Allah; and whoever says: 'He manifested in His entirety as a physical body' has equated Him [with creation] alone."

Indeed, hardly a single epistle from the epistles of the master monotheists (al-Muwahhidun) is devoid of transcending the Creator above corporeality and its necessities, such as instruments, apparatuses, and limbs.

For within The Epistle of the Councils (Risalat al-Andiyah), our Master al-Jali, Allah sanctified his secret, said:

"Then their Master made them manifest, and their Essence (Ma'na) honored them within the Adamite dome through fleshly, bloody human bodies; and He manifested to them as their likeness, without a physical reality to His manifestation through bodies."

And it came in The Guidance of the Seeker (Hidayat al-Mustarshid):

"And He did not become embodied in a body; and indeed, He, the Exalted, His quiddity (mahiyyah) does not cross any mind, and He is the Sublime, the Most Exalted."

And within the supplications of al-Makzun, Allah sanctified his secret: