And the sound intellect also judges that by His, the Almighty's, manifestation (tajallihi) among this creation for the perception of a wisdom and a benefit is much more than His hiddenness, His veiling, and His concealment from them entirely, since indeed, in the saying and the belief in the manifestation in a form (like the one manifested to [al-mujalla]) is an affirmation for the attribute of manifestation (al-zuhur), meaning that He is "The Manifest" (al-Zahir), and in the saying and the belief in the non-possibility of the vision of the essence upon what it is of an abstracted light [that] is not perceived, is an affirmation for the attribute of hiddenness (al-butun), meaning that He is "The Hidden" (al-Batin).
"And we, in the case of our saying and our belief in the non-vision of the Originator (al-Bari') entirely, as the others from the peoples and the sects believe it, we would have thereby affirmed the attribute of hiddenness (al-butun) only, and negated from Him the attribute of manifestation (al-zuhur), while indeed He, the Almighty, affirmed for His essence the two attributes.




