How then can you negate His manifestation, the Exalted, through the human form?"

In response to this objector, we say: O objector, your mind has overlooked the vast difference between our saying: "The Creator, glorified is He, manifested to every genre like unto its own genre," and our saying: "The Creator is of the same genre as His created beings."

The first statement is an absolute, truthful reality that no mystic denier rejects, no monotheist is ignorant of, and no believer disputes. Meanwhile, the second statement is utter blasphemy and misguidance, uttered by none but the straying innovators.

Thus, we acknowledge and maintain belief that the Creator, glorified and exalted is He, caused us to perceive Him in a form belonging to the genre of our own form. For He, glorified is He, resembled the People of Light (Ahl al-Nūr) in a form from their genre, just as He assumed a likeness to mortals in a form from their shape and genre.

However, the manifestation of homogeneity (al-mujānasah) between the Creator and His creation does not mean that He, the Exalted,