And Sheikh Kamil Salih Ma'ruf said in The Leaves (Al-Saha'if): "Indeed, the Pre-eternal, Ancient, Supreme Essence is other than the form witnessed by sights, and for this reason the Sheikh said: 'She is He, yet He is not she.'"

And he also said in The Leaves: "The Manifest One—His vision differs, yet His Essence does not differ—according to the station of the wayfarers..."

And he also said: "And He is too sublime to be restricted or bounded by what the fleshy, bloody eyes saw, because the vision of Him is other than Him, and what was witnessed of the form is other than it..."

And he also said in his commentary on the speech of The Warning (Al-Tanbih): "If you look at the True Lord, do not be heedless of the created servant." He said: "The True Lord is from the aspect of His detachment from names, attributes, and inwardness, wherein no speaker has any premise; and the created servant is the form through which He appeared as a reassurance to His creation like them. Thus, from the aspect of the eye's vision, it is a servant, while from the aspect of reality, it is a Lord..."