and above all that reaches human comprehensions. He is sanctified above manifesting in a luminous, imaginary, or archetypal form. Whatever is witnessed by sights from among all the cosmos across the horizons and pertains to the knowledge of man—the Truth, Glory be to Him, is far above that and loftier in status. His eternity is above what intellects can grasp; He is the meaning of perpetuity, transcendent above incarnation (al-hulul) in phantoms, and sanctified above permeation (al-sarayan) into souls."

The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa):

"And verily, Allah is neither a person (shakhs) nor a form (surah); rather, He is a unitary identity (huwiyyah wahdaniyyah), possessing a single power, manifold actions, and wondrous provisions. Not a single one of His creation knows what He is, where He is, or how He is. From Him effuses the existence of all existing entities; He is the Manifester of the forms of cosmic beings within the Primary Matter (al-Hayula), and the Originator of all modalities without time or space—rather, by His command: {Be, and it is}. He is present within everything without intermixture (mukhalatah), and alongside everything without permeation (mumazajah),