manifestations; and when He chooses inwardness (baṭana), He makes us His lights.'"

The author of the book commented, saying: "So this is the attribute of the vicegerents (awliya’) of Allah: apparitions, meaning lights without physical bodies. If these are their attributes, then the Creator, glorified and exalted is He, is far more majestic and sublime than to be a physical, human body (jisman nāsūtiyyan)."

And it came in The Rectification of Names (Taqwim al-Asma’):

"Were it not for the familiarity established through the visible divine form, the created forms would not have been guided to the One Who brought them into existence. Thus, whosoever thinks that the visible, receding-haired form (al-ṣūrah al-mar'iyyah al-anza‘iyyah) is a physical body like other bodies has indeed suffered a manifest loss; because the Supreme Essence grants to every self-disclosure a form that is necessary for that particular locus of manifestation.

And Sheikh Husayn al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified his secret, said in The Reminder for Seekers (Tadhkirat al-Muridin):