is pure, abstract light; the Exalted said: {Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth} 1 but the servants saw Him when He manifested Himself to them as a human being like them, in a form like their forms and a body like their bodies, upon which runs what runs upon the rest of the created beings of eating, drinking, incapacity, illness, death, and sleep. So what is the reason that made the servants see their Creator, that abstract, dazzling, grand light, as a human being like them?
The answer: Many reasons combined that made the servants see their Creator—that grand, capable Deity, the noble, creating Lord, and the comprehensive, dazzling light—in a form like their forms and a body like their bodies.
So the first of these reasons: is that the capability of the Creator has no limits, for the grand capable One is not incapacitated from presenting His Essence to everything in the form of that thing.
As our Sheikh al-Khasibi, Allah purified his person, said: