and it has no prior Unseen to sustain it, this statement serves as a direct refutation of your disciple Rabi'ah and an invalidation of what is in his possession—and I had already answered you with that beforehand. You had no need to mention the Unseen after your own denial of the form and the "Three Fives," for this is a refutation against you. Your error was born of nothing but the personal bias that [blemished you] ¹ and the malady that afflicted you, just as your disciple Rabi'ah made absurdity his habit, and falsehood and fabrication his regular practice. For according to my belief: the Meaning, majestic is his glory, is self-subsisting, not subsisting through anything of His creation and that His outward aspect is not other than His inward aspect, because that whose outward aspect differs from its inward aspect is created. God, magnificent is His power, is unitary of Essence and absolute in attributes. During the entire period of His occultation, He does not demand that the believer possess gnostic recognition of His physical manifestations; rather, He [demands of him] ² the recognition of anticipating the manifestation.