and the event (al-hadath), and the organs (al-a'da'), and the limbs (al-jawarih), and their like, and we believe that the occurrence of that was from the direction of the vision of the looker, not the reality."

"For He manifested the birth and is not born, and manifested the eating and the drinking and is not an eater nor a drinker, and showed the killing and the death and is not killed nor dead. The realization (misdaq) of that is the saying of our Master the Commander of the Faithful which I preceded to mention."

[312] And the transmitted (al-muwarad) in several exoteric books, he said - majestic is his praise -: "Indeed our killed one was not killed, and indeed our dead one did not die, and indeed our absent one when he is absent did not become absent, and we did not beget and we were not begotten, and the wombs (al-butun) did not contain us, and no one is compared to us."