and it is that concerning which the Great Allamah, Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad—may Allah make his dust fragrant and noble his resting place—spoke when reviewing the Sheikh's statement to Ibn Shu‘bah:

'And I say without concealment, and seek refuge in Him from addition and subtraction: if the hidden state (al-ghaybah) is pre-eternal, then the entire manifestation is created-in-time (ḥadath) except His manifestation through the hairline-receding Form (al-Anza‘iyyah) alone. For it is within it that the Lord manifested in pre-eternity; He excepted it and made it pre-eternal, while making everything besides it created-in-time, thereby isolating it completely from all created entities.'"

The Allamah said—and I have benefited from his saying: “For it is within it that the Lord manifested in pre-eternity”—that they maintain the belief that upon this very structure and form, the Lord manifested in His pre-eternity, and it is the Essence itself and the unassailable Hiddenness (al-ghayb al-manī‘), etc.

Naturally, he does not intend by "this structure" and "this form" the human form or the physical, human nature (al-nāsūtiyyah). Rather, he intends the Form which his Sheikh, al-Khasibi, described as being: