neither resemblance nor equal; and there is none co-equal to Him, there is nothing like unto Him, and none knows what He is except He Himself.

Eleventh: That we know that He, glorified is He, is perpetually present and eternally manifest. His absence is completely impossible, just as His non-existence is impossible. He did not become absent from His heaven by witnessing His earth, nor from His earth by witnessing His heaven. No locus is devoid of Him, no time restricts Him, and no veil screens Him. Rather, His "absence" is simply the intense radiance of Light upon manifestation—not a matter of vacating one space and occupying another like it; and His self-revelation (tajallīhi) is merely the lifting of the veil of darkness from the eyes of the onlookers.

Twelfth: That we know that He, glorified is He, is Light, a Thing, and a Body (nūr wa-shay’ wa-jism)—except that He is a Light not like other lights, a Thing not like other things, and a Body not like other bodies. Thus, He is an Existing Being without any modality (kā’in bilā kayfiyyah).

Thirteenth: That we know that He, glorified is He, cannot be grasped by any of His created beings—neither within the earth nor within the heaven—in terms of total encompassing (idrāk