You established for Him an Unseen realm that can neither be named nor reached by any pathway. Therefore, you are the one more deserving of refutation, since you have split Him into two categories: a possible category, and an impossible category. By doing so, you and the Hatimite sect (al-firqah al-hatimiyyah) became one and the same; because they established that Ali ibn Abi Talib, His glory is magnificent, was a human person, a House (bayt), and a locus (makan) supplied with speech and knowledge by the uncomprehended Unseen, and that this Unseen can neither be recognized, nor named, nor reached by any pathway.
What difference then is there between you and them? Since you have split Him into two categories:
An understood, visible category, and a [hidden, inaccessible Unseen category]!
As for the outward that you have made your ultimate limit and ultimate end, it consists merely of [the forms], delineations, and [the concealment] 1 through which the Originator was witnessed during the state of manifestation—by which the Originator confounded the human world, such as eating, drinking,