THE REFUTATION OF THE WORSHIPERS OF THE FORM WHO DENY THE UNSEEN
As for your statement: "It has reached me concerning this man that he worships the Unseen and has denied the form"—you have yourself affirmed and transcribed in your debate on the authority of Abu Sa'id, may God sanctify him, that he states in all of his books and epistles: "Indeed, the form that ascended [the pulpits] 1 and said: 'My outward aspect is Imamate and Testamentary Succession (Wasiyyah), [while my inward aspect is an Unseen that cannot be comprehended. And the Unseen that cannot be comprehended] 2 is the Meaning (al-Ma'na).'"
Look then at how God has veiled your intellect, while you claim that there is no pathway toward the Unseen! Had you uttered this at the very beginning of your book, you would have spared yourself this abundance of speech, and it would have been more fitting for the coherence of the text. Since the form itself is the impenetrable Unseen,