that the humanity He displayed possessed no ultimate reality, and that the ultimate reality lies in Lordship—to manifest power—and that God does whatever He wills, however He wills."

Therefore, if the human form possessed no ultimate reality, it follows that the Originator is removed from configuration, since creation witnessed nothing but a human form. If that form possessed no ultimate reality, then what form remains here? Indeed, the ultimate reality lies in Lordship to manifest power, not in humanity to display incapacity. What benefit is there in exalting the Originator above eating and drinking if one still establishes Him as an actual form in reality? If anyone believes that it is a human, then humanity has no ultimate reality; and if he claims that it is a form of light, he has invalidated his own observation, because he did not witness a light—he only witnessed a human.

Furthermore, if he establishes the opposite of what his own eye witnessed, then acknowledgment of transcendence (al-tanzih) becomes logically binding upon him—if only he understood how to declare His transcendence.