"And I bear witness that He is the One, not from numerical value; the Manifest through His Essence without a physical body (jasad)."
And in another supplication:
"The One transcended above occupying physical bodies (hulul al-ajsam), and above movement and spatial transition."
And within The Refutative Treatise (al-Raddadiyyah), we see that the Refuter, Allah sanctified his secret, dedicated nearly his entire epistle to refuting his opponents—those who used to believe that the Creator, glorified is He, in His manifestation and His inwardness, is embodied with a hand of light, a foot of light, and a head of light, negating nothing from Him except eating and drinking. Thus, the Refuter, Allah sanctified his secret, combated them, demolished their argument, and transcended his Master, the Sublime, the Great, above all of this; he did not say—as the Anthropomorphists say—that the Creator in His Essence is an embodied, corporeal, individualized body.
And our Master Abu Sa'id, Allah sanctified his secret, said in The Success-Bringing Treatise (al-Najhiyyah), quoting al-Jali, his saying:




