He only veiled Himself from creation by the very factor through which He manifested, due to the intensity of the radiance of His light during the manifestation of the Truth, just as the poet said: 'And out of the intensity of manifestation arises hiddenness.'"

Then he said [in verse]:

Your veil from the eye of creation is Your very disclosure, And how can He be seen by the physical eye who has nullified the heart?

You have never been absent except from a miscreant who beholds

The brilliance of Your countenance as a full moon, yet calls the pitch-black darkness a lord!

And the Sheikh Khalil ibn Maruf said in "The Treatise of Confession" [Risalat al-I'tiraf]: Our Master Abu Said said in the supplication for the festival of the ninth: "His manifestation through the witnessed form [al-surah al-mar'iyyah] was a human body for those who conceptualize anthropomorphically, while in His inner dimensions for the gnostics, He was a brilliant, eternal Light and a universal Meaning. Thus, we have come to know that the luminous form and the human form are one single form, without division or separation;