Likewise, the utterance "light" (al-nur) also yields the meaning of existence and appearance, because the opposite of light is darkness, and darkness is pure non-existence, countered by light which yields existence and appearance. For this reason, it is said "the plant lighted" (nawwara al-nabat), meaning: its blossom emerged, in the sense that its blossom appeared.

Sheikh Mahmud Sulayman al-Khatib, Allah sanctified his soul, said in his epistle The Decisive Speech, after transcribing a chapter from the epistle of the Sayyid Abu Abdallah, Allah purified his person: "This noble chapter directed us to describe the Meaning by what He described Himself; so He is a thing, since there is no thing alongside Him, and if He were no thing, He would be non-existence; and He is light, since if He were not light, He would be darkness, and darkness is likewise pure non-existence.

And he, Allah sanctified him, said: "And the Sheikh's determination that He is a thing, a body, and a light—all of that is an affirmation of His appearance in the witnessed form."

Thus, the application of these utterances to the Creator, glorified is He, does not mean that He is a thing like material things, or that He is a light like accidental lights,