The True Reality of the Greatest Name and the Transcendence of the Creator
The Luminous Presence that is too grand for circumscription is the Name, majestic is his glory. He is the elevated Light and the most radiant Light that settles within a white pearl, which is the essential, Muhammadan Light, just as the Exalted stated: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. God guides to His light whom He wills. And God presents examples for the people, and God is Knowing of all things. 1
The "lamp" is the Light, which is the Name, majestic is his glory, and the "glass" is the Muhammadan corporeal form.
[46] And it is narrated on the authority of al-Sadiq, majestic is his glory, that he said: "Verily, when the Creator knew concerning creation—before bringing them forth from non-existence into existence—that they would inevitably require a Name by which they could invoke Him,