So Allah is exalted above the limit of anthropomorphism and the limit of divestment [al-Ta‘ṭīl], and if the Creator has blessed us with His existence, do we make Him from the genus of His creation, and restrict Him within human or luminous bodies?

[[The Obligation of Combining Between the Two Forms]]

And Ibn Shu‘bah—may Allah sanctify him—said: "The Gnosis of Allah within bodies is like the worship of idols," and do not say: indeed He is other than what we saw, so you invalidate His existence, and I seek refuge in Allah from that.

And Ibn Sinān and the rest of the monotheists said: "Indeed, the manifestation of the Meaning [al-Ma‘nā] in the visible form is the need of the created beings for it, not due to a need of the Creator for it."

And what benefit is there in deeming the Creator transcendent above the visible, manifest human form? For from which aspect is it permissible to deem Him transcendent above the manifest, visible human form, and it is not permissible to deem Him transcendent above the luminous form? While the two forms are a truth and the two manifestations are a truth,