In doing so, we have in reality affirmed something else, which is the correct matter. This is what we intended by the statement: negation is an affirmation of the second degree, or one achieved in two stages.

Therefore, (yet He is not she) is not a nullification of our saying (she is He), but rather a refutation and a correction of an idea that had rushed into our minds, or an illusion we assumed had occurred to others—which is that the incapacity or the physical instruments we witnessed constitute the Supreme Ultimate. Thus, we rushed without separation or pause to erase this sudden and erroneous idea by negating it. By this, we have affirmed the reality that was established in the first place, which is that she is He."

And this is what is clarified in the most lucid manner by what came from our Master, the Commander of the Faithful, glorified is his glory: "Negate what you see, and affirm what you know."

The author of The Gnostic’s Proof, Allah sanctified him, said: "It is not sound for anyone who is within the shirts of delay to know the succession of attributes, and the isolation of their meaning from them."