And his statement:

“The intent is directed toward the Veil through Allah, not toward Allah through the Veil.”

And he, Allah sanctified his secret, stated:

“Verily, the One who is balanced through His power over His Form—by which He is manifest according to the stage of His manifestation... [down to his statement]: and that form which appears in physical configurations to the world stems from the side of their own tempered eyes (‘uyūnihim al-mizājjiyyah), not from the aspect of the essence of His Sublime Essence. Thus, the necessity of His power caused us to see the form of His existence matching the form of the onlooker looking upon Him. Is it permissible then, since out of His grace toward us He brought into existence for us a form like our own forms, that we should affirm accidental qualities upon Him? Or that parts and fractions should condition Him?

He possesses no veil that screens Him, nor any movement of relocation that alters Him; rather, our sins have veiled us from Him, thereby necessitating His manifestation to us via the veils of our own selves.”

He then stated: