The absence we perceive is merely due to the defect of the human temperament, and it is caused by nothing other than the extreme radiance of the lights;

the brilliance overwhelms the eyes just as the nocturnal birds in the daytime light. Verily, Allah, the Exalted, has no cessation to His manifestation, nor is there any restriction to His existence; He resembled them in description and appearance, yet differed from them in reality and essence.

And majesty according to them is an expression for His Essence, the Exalted, through its manifestation in His attributes and names. It is also said that majesty is the attribute of subduing, just as beauty is the attribute of subtlety. And the Divine Nature: its root is Laha in the sense of a deity, to which the Wāw and Tā' were added, along with the Alif, for hyperbole, as in kingdom, omnipotence, and their likes. And continuous time is the permanent "Now" which is the extension of the Divine Presence; it is the inward of time, and through it eternity-past and eternity-future are united. And the Name manifests through the Gate that sustains it, and the Gate has no [separate existence]; through it, the One manifests.