necessitated treating them with forgiveness and His appearance to them with grace, which is the veil that they saw like their attributes, as an intimacy and kindness to them."

And our Master Abu Sa'id, Allah sanctified him, said in the tenth chapter of Al-Najhiyyah: "And as for his argument (meaning Abu Dhahibah) in this chapter by the saying of our Sheikh Abu Abdullah: 'So how could the servants and the Children of Israel endure seeing Him in luminosity, when they have no capacity to look at Him'—as for this saying from our Master Abu Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him, it is pure truth and a speech of veracity, because the servants and the Children of Israel are bodily in forms, so if He, the Exalted, appeared to them from other than their genus, they would not stand firm for witnessing Him, and they would vanish upon seeing Him, and that would not be permissible by wisdom and kindness to the nation, etc."

And he, Allah sanctified him, said, quoting from The Book of Appearances: "And it was not within His justice, His bounty, and His compassion to appear to creation with the effacing illumination, for that would be a cause for their vanishing."

And the fifth reason: is the familiarization for the believers, and the mystification upon the disbelievers,