For if he says, "To the discarded form," then he has pointed to the darkness, since nothing remained in the hands of creation except their own darkness and the veil of their sins.

But if he points to the speaking station and negates the occulted form from Him, then he has agreed with us and invalidated the falsehood he used to hold. For any form that remains in the hands of creation after a new speaking station has manifested, I do not point to that occulted form after the speech [has moved], nor do I establish it as belonging to the Originator. For were it to belong to the Originator, it would have remained with Him and never parted from Him, nor would He have displayed an occultation through it. Rather, whenever the Originator became occulted, no one would know the locus of the occultation, nor would there remain with them any trace, form, or shrine (mashhad). It would then be possible that when He manifested with the first Name and the first Form, He would display no transition, neither by death nor by slaying. We have already demonstrated within this point that which is entirely sufficient.