His saying in His Book revealed to His messenger prophet: {Have you not seen your Lord how He extends the shadow, and if He willed He could have made it still, then We made the sun a guide upon it * Then We withdrew it to Ourselves a gentle withdrawal}.'"

So the master al-Ṣādiq answered: "Indeed, the Meaning [al-Ma‘nā] resembles His name, and He created it upon the likeness of His form."

[[The Testing of the Angels and the Changing of Forms]]

And it is said in another place of the "Book of al-Usūs": "Indeed, the Creator, He is exalted, when He created the angels—and they are the world of light—they knew that they were brought into being after they had not been, and that they have a Creator who created them.

So some of them said to others: 'Come, let us seek our Lord so that we may recognize Him, declare His oneness, and incline toward Him with our obedience.' And the Lord was manifest among them like them, so He indicated from Himself to Himself and said: 'O He, O He' [Yā Huwa, Yā Huwa], thus pointing them to Himself that 'He whom you desire and seek, I am He.'