and the highest of the stations of faith—those who see that a hidden state (al-ghaybah) is as impossible for the Creator as non-existence itself is impossible for Him.

Thus, they declare Him transcendent above the form that necessitates alternate absence and presence, and above the formalization occurring within the eyes of those bound by elemental mixture—not above His Form which is the very essence of His Essence, and without which existence would not be established, nor plain sight rendered sound.

It is stated in Tuḥfat al-Akhyār:

"Thus, the Essence appears like unto the genre within the eyes of the onlookers, without any transformation occurring within its actual reality. Rather, it appears like the attribute of a thing; consequently, that perceived object—stemming from the witnessed attribute—becomes a veil within the eyes of the onlookers. This is because upon the manifestation of the Essence, there must inevitably be an attribute through which it exists to plain sight, so that He may address the servants from it."

Therefore, if we say: "The Creator, glorified is He, manifested to every genre like unto its own genre," this does not mean that He has actually become part of their genre.