and that Allah, glorified is He, manifested through His Essence from the stance of where He is, yet they perceived Him from the stance of where they are?

And [how can he forget] that everything upon which our vision fell—of eating, drinking, marriage, and procreation, all the way to what lies beyond that of the fifteen states—is a cause operating within the eyes of those bound by elemental mixture, and that it is the veil of sins that has rusted over the hearts? And that everything the Masters, glorified is their glory, and the possessors of the spiritual stations manifested from this chapter is pure imagination (takhyīl) and concealment (talbīs), possessing no reality according to the entirety of the people of monotheism?

Oh, would that I knew: how could He who is powerful enough to manifest all of that be rendered incapable of showing that He has a wife who conceives and gives birth, and that He cohabits with her just as men cohabit, and she bears children for Him just as women bear children—especially after our perceiving Him in a human form possessing dimensions and boundaries, while He, the Exalted, is transcended far above the like of that?

All the way to his saying: