it is extended from the impregnable Unseen [al-ghayb al-mani'] wherein there is no speech for any speaker, nor can parables be struck concerning It."

[118] And Abu Said said in his "Successful Treatise" [Al-Risalah al-Najhiyyah]: Our Master Abu Shu'ayb—upon him be peace—said to Yahya ibn Ma'in al-Samiri: "O Yahya, indeed the Meaning [Al-Ma'na] manifested through a body and a spirit as a similitude and a formation. Thus, the spirit is the impregnable Unseen that cannot be comprehended, which is the eternal, unique Essence [Al-Dhat al-Ahadiyyah], while the body is Its light—I mean the light of the Essence."

And Ibn Makzun said in his Diwan—Allah sanctified his soul

Transcend the [essence of the] Eye above any knowledge that depicts It

As bounded, even if the physical eye beholds It in the likeness of forms.

And strip away [any notions of] incapacity and spatial delineation whenever

there manifests From Him [that which serves] to make manifest His eternal, absolute Powers.