and it is the small price about which God the Exalted said concerning them: [They have purchased with the signs of God a small price] ¹ .

And some of them, I used to hear from him that the one who uttered upon all the pulpits and said: [I am God, he is] ² according to them the shirt of manifestation, and the tongue of expression, because the meaning does not utter except through a tongue, and the tongue is [an attribute among the attributes of] ³ man, and the form is the mine of indication, and the mine is a settled place and a dwelling of the unseen, and He veiled them with the visible form from which He showed them the divine utterance, and it is the attribute of light, and they argued by his saying: those are the attributes of light and the shirts of manifestation, because it is according to them the name, and it is the veil of the intellect and a life for all that is in the abode, and I lived concurrently ⁴ in my time with these: Nashi Qurmus, and Rabiah al-Suwayda ⁵ and I have in this [an argument] ⁶ whose explanation is long.