and worship of it is fundamentally invalid due to its being unknown; whosoever worships an unknown has fallen upon nothingness and has worshipped nothing at all.
For this reason, Allah, glorified is He, censured those opponents who were veiled from recognizing the Manifest Truth (al-Ḥaqq al-Mubīn) by the statement of He, the Exalted:
{And if you should ask them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth?' they would surely say, 'Allah.' Say, '[All] praise is [due] to Allah'; but most of them do not know.} 1
Thus, He, glorified is He, attributed them to ignorance despite their speaking the literal truth (qawlahum al-ḥaqq). That was due to their worshipping an unknown entity and their denial of the present, existing Entity who manifested to them through His own Essence and made clear the definitive proofs of His abstract Reality (ma‘nawiyyah). Yet despite this, they rejected and denied.
And whosoever does not believe in the present, existing Entity and the witnessed, Outward manifestation,