The five by which He appeared are: 'Humanity (al-nasut), poverty, illness, sleep, and death.'

And the five which He made manifest are: 'Eating, drinking, urinating, major ritual impurity (al-janabah), and defecation.'

Yet He is more sublime and exalted than to have within Himself or belonging to Him anything of these three fives; rather, He merely made them manifest as a reassurance to His creation, and out of kindness and gentleness toward them."

And whoever scrutinizes the speech of the Sheikh will find that he—Allah purified his person—negated all human conditions from the Creator, just as he negated from Him all physical compositions and sensory forms which the creation witnessed in the visible form.

If an objector objects to us and says: "The Sheikh—Allah purified his person—did not negate from the Creator anything other than eating, drinking, and the rest of the fifteen states, and he did not address the negation of the human form or physical compositions, as proven by the fact that neither 'form' nor 'body' appeared within the fifteen states he mentioned?"

We say to him: Indeed, the word (al-nasut), which the Sheikh mentioned among the five by which He appeared,