and indeed it is not permissible for anyone among the people of knowledge and understanding to remove Him from one and establish Him in one, nor is it permissible for one to be preferred over the other.

So whoever separates between the two forms and the two manifestations, and prefers one over the other; he has erred in his saying, for the two forms are one in reality, and indeed He who manifested to humans as a human is He who manifested to the people of light by light.

And we, the world of humans, our sights inverted so we saw Him in a human form resembling us, while the people of light, their sights did not invert, nor did their thoughts change; so they saw Him not except in a luminous form in the earth and the heaven.

[[The Question of the Sheikh al-Jillī to the Sheikh al-Khaṣībī Regarding the Luminous and Human Form]]

And indeed the master Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Jillī asked the sheikh Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Khaṣībī—may Allah sanctify them both—about the difference between the two forms: the human and the luminous?.