and rejection of His power is that you say He speaks upon the tongue of another, or that you supplicate to another while it is Him you intend."

And Shams al-Din al-Muhammadi said: "Existence in all things is by accident [bi-al-'arad], and in the First Innovated Entity [Al-Mubda' al-Awwal] it is by essence [bi-al-dhat]..." up to his saying: "As for multiplicity, it is the emanated unity; and as for motion, it is in need of a mover, and the First Mover is not moved. Every moved thing is originated, while the Primordial [Al-Azal] has no beginning, and whatever has no beginning is eternal."

And the trustworthy youth said in his treatise "The Successful" [Al-Najhiyyah]: "We affirm and we negate; meaning, we affirm the manifestation and the existence, and we negate the reality of bodies and limits. And we say that the Meaning is never absent from a place, yet no time encompasses Him."

[89] And Muhammad ibn Shu'bah said in his book "The Realities of the Secrets of Religion" [Haqa'iq Asrar al-Din]: It was narrated from Zayd ibn Talhah, from Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar, who said: A man entered the presence of our Master Al-Sadiq, His glory is mighty, and said: I said to him: "O my master,