nor partitioned, nor substituted, nor changed. He is in His inwardness just as He is in His outwardness, and the outward is the very essence of the inward. He, glorified is He, after the manifestation and appearance, is just as He was before the manifestation and appearance; and just as He is in the world of the unseen, likewise He is in the world of the witnessed—for the inaccessible unseen and the sheathed inward is the witnessed manifest and the present existent."

Al-Makzun, Allah sanctified him, said: "Manifestation is the lifting of the veil of darkness from the sight of the perceiver, so that he may witness from the Essence of the Manifest One according to his capacity, within the limit of his incapacity and the fatigue of his sight from witnessing the light of the Divinity, without any change in the Essence of the Manifest One through a movement that would necessitate for Him a transition from the state of His inwardness during the state of His appearance." So ponder his saying, Allah sanctified him: "without any change in the Essence of the Manifest One.

For this indicates to us that the Creator, glorified is He, before His manifestation and after His manifestation, did not change, nor substitute, nor transition from state to state,