His manifestation to him, He showed him his own image, just as the mirror makes the image of the looker appear to him within it."

And he, Allah sanctified him, said:

By its purity it is prevented that it be seen by

The eye of a looker except by the description of the looker

It came in the commentary: "His, the Exalted's, vision is prevented to the looker except by his own description."

And he, Allah sanctified him, said: "Just as in the mirror I witness what is behind me in front of me and what is on my right on my left, while it has not transformed, nor has what became apparent in it of shapes settled within it."

It came in the commentary: "Just as the mirror shows you things contrary to what they are upon in reality, and it has not transformed, nor has what appeared in it of shapes settled within it, likewise the sanctified Essence, due to the purity of Its light, the looker at It sees his own description of change and other than it without change in Its Essence, because It is the mirror of existence, so It has not shifted from Its being by Its appearance to the eyes,