You will find that the Parabolic Manifestations (al-ẓuhūrāt al-mithliyya) and the Seven Essential Manifestations (al-sittat al-ẓuhūrāt al-dhātiyya)—which are: Abel, Seth (Shit), Joseph, Joshua, Asaph, Simon, and the Prince of Bees, Ali—are [in reality] one single thing. All of them are Essential and Anza’ite [pertaining to Ali].

However, these seven manifestations are the Meaning (Ma‘nā) in His very Essence, not through any of His creatures. For when the Meaning willed, desired, and decreed for the creation—both the Luminous World and the Earthly Physical World—to look upon Him so they might witness a Presence that is never absent, it was impossible for them all to look upon Him except through according to their own nature (shākilatihī) and according to their strength and capacity. All of this is so that worship may be valid; for it is established that whenever a servant bears witness to that which he does not see, he is a liar and a transgressor.

If someone should say: 'He only manifested [these forms] through His power and perfected them through His craftsmanship and the execution of His will to guide us to the fact that He is a capable Lord whose wisdom is inexhaustible and whose will cannot be opposed,' we say to him:

This belief is the 'Whispering Slinker' (al-waswās al-khannās) and a building without a foundation.

Rather, the correct belief and the testimony made with explicit clarity is: