and veils His radiance with His shadow. [And these] 1 are lights, not bodies or human flesh, and the Anza'i form is the very essence of the radiance 2 and the shadow."
[12]And His Greatest Name, which is the One, is invented from the light that constitutes the veil of His Essence; so the radiance and the shadow are from the invented light, and the invented light is the veil of the Essence, and these three comprise the entirety of the reality of the Mim [Muhammad], majestic is His mention.
And likewise, our master Abu Abdillah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khasibi, may God sanctify him, said: "Glory be to Him who concealed His Essence with His light, His light with His radiance, and His radiance with His shadow, and established the form between the radiance and the shadow—while the form of existence remains connected to the One Worshipped."
And like what the youth asked the trustworthy one (to the trustworthy Sheikh), and the form of the question [led to] what he said in the response: