Thus, he made it known that their physical bodies were created from those pure lights that are spiritually fitting for the souls of the believers to be fashioned from. Then he said: 'Verily, Allah created the souls of the believers from a single, unified Light.'

Thus, it became known that the Light being intended and referred to is that which serves as the primary gateway [sabab] to guidance, aligns harmoniously with the lofty celestial lights, and acts as the medium of direct connection [al-ittisal] to the Divine realm—which is defined across the hierarchical degrees of existence [maratib al-wujud]... up to his saying: 'And that recognition [al-ma'rifah] can never be complete except through the recognition of intelligible realities [al-ma'qulat] and abstract lights [al-anwar al-mujarradat]. This is because sensory, material objects [al-mahsusat] are mere accidental properties [a'rad], and accidental properties are transient; they can never be called substances [jawahir]. For substances are self-subsisting, independent in the reality of their existence from anything other than themselves, whereas accidental properties cannot subsist except by leaning upon substances.