transcendent above the two forms by which He manifested like the genus of the created beings.
[(De-anthropomorphism of the Elite for the Creator From the Necessities of Humanity)]
And know that none deemed Him transcendent except the prophets and the guardians, and the believing Knowers deemed Him transcendent above everything that occurred to Him in the eyes of onlookers, and they did not deem Him transcendent above anything that did not emanate from Him.
Rather, when they saw that He had a father, a mother, and children, they deemed Him transcendent; as He deemed Himself transcendent by His saying: {He neither begets nor is born * Nor is there to Him any equivalent}, and when they saw that He had a wife, they deemed Him transcendent above that; as He said in His Mighty Book: {He has not taken a companion or a son}.
And when they saw that He manifested eating and drinking, the wife and the children, sons and daughters, maternal aunts and paternal aunts, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and all instruments;




