And it came in The Rectification of Names: "For looking at an existing, defined form possessing outlines, features, speech, utterance, gesture, and expression is more indicative, firmer, clearer, and more revealing than imaginary forms, shadowy features, and illusory modalities..."

And the eighth reason: is for the trial and testing, for the Knower, glorified is his glory, was asked: For what cause did Allah make Himself known to the universe? So he said: "To bring [it] close to their intellects, and for the establishment of the proof against them, and likewise so that their trial and testing may be correct."

And it came in The Book of Admonition: "Allah appeared to His creation like His creation, so they saw Him as a likeness of them, upon whom runs what runs upon them, as a mystification upon the deniers, and a testing and trial for the believers, so that he who lived might live upon a clear evidence, and he who perished might perish upon a clear evidence."

And our Master Abu Sa'id said in The Problematic of the Epistle: "And if He had appeared to them contrary to that, His affair would not have been hidden from anyone,