So if a speaker says: "This discourse has other meanings, and we must interpret it metaphorically ('ala al-majaz) rather than literally ('ala al-haqiqah), because if we maintain that this literally occurs and we interpret this discourse according to its outward appearance, it would necessitate making Allah localized and perceived," we answer that speaker: We have clarified, by adducing the proofs and repeating the statement, that the One who is neither perceived, nor encompassed, nor localized in any state of affairs is the Divine Essence—meaning the pure light. As for the image, which is the Essence and none other, it only appeared to the onlooker as perceived due to a cause within him, not within it—just as is the case with seeing the sun as small, whereas in reality it is not as we see it.