And from His reviving the dead, His returning the sun, His splitting the moon, His knowledge of the hidden matters, and their likes among His essential characteristics, we knew that that image does not belong to Him, nor is He a helpless creature. Even if He displayed the incapacity that is among our characteristics and attributes, the matter became obscured to the intellects and eyes of some through His appearance, the Exalted, via incapacity, so they denied Him and rejected Him. Yet the matter became clear to the intellects and eyesights of others through His manifestation via dazzling capability, so they affirmed Him and declared His oneness.

The believer recognized Him through the signs of capability, so he affirmed it for Him, gave it weight, and negated from Him incapacity, boundaries, and images; whereas the disbeliever rejected Him due to what he saw of the incapacity—which was not real—so he affirmed it and gave it weight, having been blinded to the flashes of divine capability.

He, the Exalted, appeared in the likeness of a human as a comfort from Him, a kindness, a bounty, and a mercy for His believing servants, and so that they might take on His manners and adopt His teachings; and furthermore, so that the argument of the denying enemies might be cut off—meaning, so that those who were to destroy might be destroyed upon evidence, and those who were to live might live upon evidence.

[41] Pointing to the correctness of that is what came at the end of the twentieth chapter (Exodus 20:19) of the Torah as follows: “And Moses said to the people, 'Do not fear, for God has only come to test you, and that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.'”

And what pleasure equals the pleasure of the lover's meeting with his beloved? And what beloved resembles this singular Beloved?