"Verily, the Creator, glorified is He, altered the hearts and sights of creation, and displayed to them a form by which He resembled mortals; yet He, glorified is He, is manifest through His Essence from the stance of where He is, while they perceived Him from the stance of their own genre. Indeed, what we witnessed of eating, drinking, procreation, and marriage is merely a cause operating within the eyes, and it is the veil of sins—being pure imagination and exemplification, possessing no objective reality."

And he, Allah sanctified his secret, said in his commendation of the treatise Sabīl al-Hidāyah li-Ma‘rifat al-Ghāyah by Sheikh Mahmud Salih Yusuf:

"And you, my noble brother, are deeply aware that the pillars of this Shu‘aybi House were erected upon the recognition of the Form (al-Ṣūrah) which is the Essence itself, and it is the true capital of the people of monotheism. It is not, as it might first hasten to the mind, a physical form possessing dimensions and boundaries; rather, it is a form unlike any forms, and a light unlike any lights.

It is that through which He, glorified is He, manifested in pre-eternity (al-qidam),