THE REFUTATION AGAINST WHOEVER FRACTIONED AND DIVIDED THE ORIGINATOR

As for my statement to him during the confrontation: "I do not bind myself to the Seven," my words to him in this instance were not a denial of the Originator's manifestation across the seven stations. Rather, my objective was that the Seven cannot be pointed to simultaneously as seven, nor are the Seven worshipped at one and the same time—such that the Originator would be manifested simultaneously in seven distinct persons, for this is the very essence of disbelief. My inquiry regarding the indivisible, partless atom (al-juz' al-asamm) was solely intended to rouse and test him, yet he failed to answer any part of it, and instead accused me [of disbelief] ¹ without knowledge. God is his judge for what he has done.

We shall clarify that with the help of God the Exalted: indeed, the meaning of our statement that He is a "partless atom that is indivisible" does not imply that the designation of "part" (al-juz') applies to Him from the standpoint of [fractioning or anthropomorphism] ² . Rather,