On the other hand, if he is textually designated (mansusan 'alayhi) but has manifested neither power nor utterance, you are still spared from questioning him, because the textual designation upon him is sound in its position and firmly established in its station."

The questioner asked: "How do we perceive Him in the form of the Veil.

while He is the Master of the Veil?"

The respondent replied: "Know, O questioner, that the likeness and the form perceived within the Lineage of the Imamate—and in other instances of [removals] where the Meaning removes a personage and manifests in the likeness of his form—belong neither to the Meaning nor to the personage whom the Meaning removed. Rather, the Creator, Mighty and Majestic, merely originated this perception within the sight of those looking upon the Meaning, such that they beheld Him in the likeness of that personage through whom the Meaning, His glory is magnificent, had manifested. This serves as blindness cast upon the tempered masses.