It is He—out of affirmation, certainty, truth, clarification, and plain sight; yet He is not It in terms of total containment, aggregation, restriction, or physical encompassing.”

Acknowledging that our Master, the Prince of the Faithful, glorified is his glory, is the One-and-Only Essence (al-Dhāt al-Aḥadiyyah) and the Eternal Goal. Toward Him we direct ourselves and point during our worship, being firmly certain that He is the Lord of Lords and the Master of Necks, besides whom no other Lord is worshipped and apart from whom no other God exists—there is no goal beyond Him, and no finality behind Him.

We hold the doctrine that He is the inner secret of the testimony: "There is no god but Allah," the inward aspect of its reality, and the intended Object within it. Thus, "There is no god but Allah" is not uttered except toward the Essence of the Hairline-Receding and Full (Anza‘ Baṭīn), whom the Greatest Name—the Master Muhammad, glorified is his glory—pointed out on the Day of Ghadir, and whom the noble angels pointed toward by their statement to Him: "Manifest through whatever You will, however You will;