The worldly masses all behold the veil of cessation, calamity, and bewilderment—which stems from their own disobedience—as an exemplified form resembling Habil, His glory is magnificent, [the very form in which he used to see him] 1 . Conversely, the gnostic believers recognize that this form, upon which incapacity falls, belongs to slaying, death, and other conditions, and they exalt the Meaning, saying: "The blow fell upon the Adversary, and the Meaning is [exalted] 2 above physical form and likeness." Thus, whoever disassociates himself from that discarded form has spoken the truth.
Refutation of Splitting the Meaning into Two Aspects: An Outward and an Inward
As for the statement of Sheikh Musa during his debate: "Whoever claims that the outward is contrary to the inward, and the inward is contrary to the outward, has split Him into two categories—an outward category beheld by sights, and an inward category unperceived by sights"—