['Rather, His two hands are extended'] 1 , ['Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to you, they only pledge allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands']2 ['Every thing is perishing except His face'] 3 .
So the first verses which sanctify the Originator (al-Bari') from the vision, the resemblance, and the encompassment, indicate "the Essence" (al-Dhat), meaning the light of the abstracted divinity (al-lahut al-mujarrad) which is not seen (the unknown limit - al-hadd al-majhul). And the other verses which contain the manifestation of the Originator, and His coming, and that He is a possessor of a side, and speech, and two hands, and a face, indicate "the Form" (al-Surah) by which the essence manifested among the human creation (the known limit - al-hadd al-ma'lum), since that form was, according to the vision of the looker, not the reality, a possessor of a face, and two hands, and speech, and coming (maji'), and arriving (ityan). And by another expression we say: Indeed the verses which contained the sanctification of the Originator and His abstraction indicate the power which manifested from the form,