and which is the attribute of the essence and the evidence of the divinity (al-uluhiyyah), and by it the Creator was known from the created, and the Lord from the lorded over (al-marbub), and the verses which contained the mentioning of the vision of the Originator, and His coming, and His arriving, and that He is a possessor of two hands, and speech, and a side, and a face, indicate the manifestations of the incapacity (mazahir al-'ajz) which appeared from the form.
"And just as we, when we take by the logic of the people of the manifest (ahl al-zahir) (with the exception of the Hashwiyyah and the Hululiyyah [Incarnationists]), so we sanctify the Originator from the coming, and the speech, and the face, and the two hands, and the side, and their like, and we go with the interpretation of the being of that upon the direction of metaphor (al-majaz) not the reality, so likewise we take by the esoteric logic (al-mantiq al-batini) which is the correct truth. So we sanctify the Originator in His manifestation (tajallihi) in the human form from all the manifestations of deficiency and incapacity like the birth, and the eating, and the drinking, and the sleep,




