And as it is said in the "Book of al-Usūs"; the questioner said: "Why does He not speak to His creation from the Supreme Lordship?", so the scholar answered: "Because it is not within their capability that He speaks to them from it," the questioner said: "By His power?", the scholar said: "His power is pre-eternal and they are temporally originated; because the temporally originated being does not understand except from a temporally originated being like himself."

So the scholar, [His glory is mighty], answered: "Indeed, the form by which He manifested and spoke to His creation from it, it is named temporally originated; due to his saying: indeed the temporally originated being does not understand except from a temporally originated being like himself, and indeed in His hiddenness no attribute applies to Him, and indeed in His pre-eternity and before His creation He was without this witnessed, visible form."

A Witnessed Account from the Report of the Bridles

And also the proof from the " Report of the Bridles" [Khabar al-A‘innah]: when Salmān al-Fārisī went out to the cemetery, and witnessed groups of Nawāṣib,