If—God forbid—our Master the Mīm were one single thing in both his manifest and internal reality, then there would be two gods, and whoever believed such a thing would be an infidel.

Rather, the pure belief is to say: The Light of the Essence never leaves the Essence at any time whatsoever. His [the Mīm's] manifest form is the radiance shining from the Light that emerged from the Essence. No one in all the worlds has a way to look upon the internal reality of the Mīm.

Whoever says or believes otherwise has, by his own opinion, made the Essence appear in two different forms and argued for two gods; he has retreated [into ignorance] and disbelieved in Allah. Generally speaking, he does not realize that this speaker did not say 'the light of this one and that one' as an index for the Anza'ite [Ali's] Eternal Form."

"His intent here—that is, what he means and aims for—is the internal reality (bāṭin) of the Mīm [Muhammad]. He is unable to point to it except from the direction of its internal essence. It is said: His manifest form is by way of 'mingling' (mizāj). It is as if his indication refers to two witnessed forms; for this reason, he said: 'It shall never vanish.'

For there is nothing that does not vanish except that which is from the Light of the Essence; no one among the Monotheists would dare to say that it vanishes. However, the manifest form of the Name (Ism)—the 'created light'—does vanish, as we have explained in this chapter.