This is the very doctrine that was uttered by Hatim al-Hanafiyyah, Yusuf ibn al-Imra'ah, Dawud al-Qayqaniyyah [or: al-Qabqaniyyah] 1 , Ja'far al-Suwaydaniyyah, Hassan Hidaya [or: Hadba / Hadya] 2 , Muhsin Bab Allah, and Marhaj al-Tuban. This is their belief, and there is not a single one among them whom I have not debated and whose methodology I have not uncovered.
As for the doctrine of the Mu'tazilah [of this sect], they believe that the sun is the Name, and it is the form to which they bear witness; its sustainer is the heaven, which encompasses it just as the sun encompasses the human form, and from it stems [the life of everything / its life] 3 .
And among them are those who bear witness that the visible form is the Ultimate, Universal, Outward, Divine Reality that speaks on behalf of the spiritual essence. They claim that the Divine Veils, the Unique Name, and the Solitary Gate speak from the holy self, and that these attributes are all a single entity speaking within human personages,