The attribute is the Name, majestic is his glory, and the described object is the Gate (al-Bab), peace be upon him.
Therefore, by this, your doctrine has been invalidated, O you who are possessed by blindness, along with your attribution of names, attributes, and human limbs to the Creator. You claim that you are Monotheists (Muwahhidun), yet you are anthropomorphists (Mushabbihun) regarding the Creator, majestic is his glory, and you are nullifiers of that which is in your own hands.
[For I] 1 have purged from Him what you mentioned following the manifestation of divine knowledge and power, and I have firmly established the existence of the One, Pre-Existent Meaning, and that the Unseen is that whose knowledge, power, and will cannot be comprehended within His creation. Consequently, by this statement, your conjecture concerning me has been utterly disproved the form, and I invalidated it. Yet you said concerning me [that which I do not say] 2 : "Indeed, the Meaning in His own Essence is neither [a body] 3 nor a form.




