What forced me into this discourse was his arrogance toward me, his ill assumptions about me, his excessive speaking regarding the form without actual knowledge, and his persistence that the Originator (al-Bari) is, in His Essence, a form! This is the very definition of anthropomorphism (al-tashbih), restriction (al-ihsar), and the binding of malice and heavy burdens. For whoever says that the Originator is a body and a spirit has circumscribed Him and divided Him into parts, since he has rendered Him two things: a body and a spirit. Yet we have already stated that the Originator is neither fractioned nor divided, because He is the partless atom (al-juz' al-asamm). Were He, the Exalted, to possess a body, that body would inevitably have an originator that brought it into view and a manifester that manifested it. Likewise, the spirit would have an originator that brought it into view and a manifester that manifested it, continuing in an infinite regress. I seek refuge in God from such a doctrine!

We shall clarify our true objective in that regard, and with God lies all success.

As for what I believe regarding the affirmation of the Originator and His absolute oneness: it is that the Originator, in His Essence and reality,