they are worlds composed of multiple essences, not from a single essence. Thus, we have clarified through what we have mentioned that the Originator (al-Bari), the Exalted, there is nothing like unto Him, nor does He enter into anything; rather, He is the sustainer of everything. So glory be to Him and exalted is He high above what the [wrongdoers] 1 say. Were it not for the validity of what we have mentioned, it would not have been permissible for us to say: "Indeed, the visible form is He," and that it is also not created. Yet it is firmly established among the adherents of this sect that whatever is beneath the Essence is created, while the visible form is not created.
[16]The witness to that is the saying of our master Salman, peace be upon him: "I do not say that our master Muhammad is created, out of glorification and veneration; rather, God—the Meaning—is above him."
He did not mean by that statement that our master Muhammad, His glory is magnificent, is below and the Meaning, His glory is magnificent, is above him by way of spatial elevation and descent;