He also said: 'Beware of falsehood, for it is the menstruation of men, the adversary of faith, the garment of the people of absurdity, and the weapon of the hypocrites.'
Furthermore, your statement: 'The visible form is a form of light, possessing a hand of light, a leg of light, a body of light, and limbs of light'—by this belief of yours, you have comprehended neither the reality of what you denied nor what you affirmed. For if you have not made the Unseen your object of worship, and as for the form [which contains the ultimate limit of your purpose] 1 , you have denied it just as you mentioned in your book, then you have invalidated what was in your possession and arrived at a state of pure nothingness by your statement:
Indeed, the outward form is the ultimate end of what we pursue and the final goal of what we intend. If we abandon it and attach ourselves to the Unseen, toward which there is no pathway, would we be errant or correct? Rather, we would be errant.'
[54]Yet it has been narrated from our Master al-Sadiq, majestic is his glory, that he said: 'Whosoever worships the visible form under the assumption that it is limited,