And we only struck this parable—and there is no parable for the Creator, Most High—so that its understanding may draw close to its listener and become conceived by its knower, and its gnosis may draw close to him, because when the sun is manifest and the moon is together in the sky, [the moon] is not there is no light for the moon, nor does the sight fall upon anything of its lights. Then, when the sun sets away from it and distances, its light that is united with it shines, illuminates, and expands across its east and its west. Rather, its lights were hidden only due to the proximity of her [the sun's] light to it and to the planets. So this is a manifest meaning for whoever comprehends it, and Allah is the Grantor of success. Thus, when these indications are known, many of the doubts are removed from him.
And the Sheikh Hatim al-Jadili said in his book "The Divestment" [Al-Tajrid] in the eighth chapter, and in reality regarding the statement of our Sheikh Abu Abdillah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan: "So He removed Al-Hasan and appeared in the likeness of his form," its meaning is that when the Meaning wills to manifest with the perfection of the Essence and the supreme luminosity of the Divinity,




