no sensation, no substance, no genus, no rending, and no sewing, no connection, and no separation; One, Pre-eternal, Individual, Eternal Refuge, nothing with Him and no peer to Him, so when the master, He is exalted, willed the manifestation of the Mīm—unto him is submission—and commanded him to create the heavens and the earths and populated them with the created beings; He manifested to the people of heaven in a luminous form according to their likenesses and their shapes, and He manifested to the people of earth in a human form like their likenesses and their shapes, and indeed the Creator, He is exalted, in His essence and His reality is not said to have a form, nor light, nor human; because if He were light, He would have a color and lights would resemble Him, and if He were a human, He would be restricted and humans would resemble Him."

But He is as our master al-Ṣādiq, [His glory is mighty], said: "And know, O Mufaḍḍal, indeed the Essence [al-Dhāt] is not said to be light; because it is the illuminator of every light."

For if the Creator were a human or a light, He would be limited and restricted, and the earth would carry Him and the heaven would shade Him, rather the Creator, He is exalted, when He wills to bring creation into existence Himself,