He designated them as sanctuaries for His Light, mosques for His Name, and programmatic beacons for His Hidden Secret [Sirr]; by means of them He is recognized, and present with them He is found. Their lights are brilliantly radiant and their essential substances are purely intellectual [jawahiruha 'aqliyyah], untouched by material turbidness [kadar] and unmarred by spiritual languor [fatar]. They burn intensely with the light of faith and look out into reality through the Eye of the All-Merciful ['Ayn al-Rahman], never overtaken by structural disorder or ultimate dissolution. Thus, whenever a believer brings joy to the heart of his brother, treats him in a manner that pleases him, benefits him, elevates him, maintains structural ties with him, aids him, and wishes for him what he wishes for his own soul, that heart expands and radiates, and that individual light links directly back onto the primary Source from which it originally emerged.'

And from Kitab al-Asaifar: 'Every form that is preceded by both matter [al-maddah] and temporal duration [al-muddah] is structurally classified as Mukawwanah [Temporally Created Element], which encompasses minerals, plants, and animals.