And the Sheikh Husayn Ahmad said in his treatise "The Inclusion" [Al-Tadmin]: And what I say and believe in the state of affirmation is that the form is the Essence, and the Mim proceeds from it in the manner of the beam from the disk, just as the grand Master Al-Sadiq pointed out in the wording of the parable: "The example of the disk is like My self, and the example of the beam is like His veil." And this is a proof of connection and proximity, not of the mixing of the veil with the Lord; because He made clear by this that the round disk in its entirety is an example of the Essence, and the Essence does not intermingle, nor change, nor is it shared by a name or a gate. And the shimmering, scattered beam is an example of the veil, and the existence of the beam cannot be without the existence of the disk, and it may stand in the place of the actions proceeding from the forms and shapes, and it is the location of the attributes of the Primordial, Most High, because from the light of His essence it appeared. And our saying "from the light of the Essence"—the word "from" [Min] here is not for partition and division; meaning: it is not that it is a part that emerged from the light of the Essence, thereby decreasing the light by its extraction. Rather, the word "from" here is for action only,




