"The questioner asked: 'How then did He come to possess a form?' The Scholar, glorified is his glory, replied: 'Due to the need of the created beings for it; for there is no speech except from a form, and likewise, there is no power except from a form.'"

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary first to affirm the form—meaning, to affirm that the Creator, the Exalted, manifests through the names and attributes via a manifestation of homogeneity. Following the affirmation of this manifestation, the declaration of transcendence (al-tanzīh) for the Possessor of the Power above that physical form takes place.

The Allamah, Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified his secret, stated:

"Our doctrine is the divestment of attributes (salb al-ṣifāt) from He, the Exalted; however, we do not divest them except after affirming the divine Power (al-qudrah)."

And the author of Al-Tanbīh, Allah sanctified his secret, stated:

"The doctrine of the gnostics is that they recognized the Power through the Powerful; thus, they affirmed the form in order to affirm the Power, since there is no power except from a form.