God as befits Him, Most High, from their perspective, not that of the Names. For the divine Names encompass more than the standing of those beings, since their connection with carrying rulings into effect is without end.
(Differences of Doctrines and Temperaments)
As for this presence’s authority over those who dispute concerning the Real, doctrines about God have differed greatly through a single faculty—thought—in many persons of different temperaments and mixtures. Faculties have nothing to sustain them except their natural temperament, and each person’s share of Nature is the temperament it imparts to him.
When Nature pours its power into him, he acquires a preparedness through which he receives the breathing of the spirit into him. From the breathing and the fashioning of the natural body there appears a luminous, spiritual form, mixed of light and darkness. Its darkness is shadow and its light is radiance. Its shadow is what the Lord extended, so it belongs to Lordship: “Have you not seen your Lord, how He extended the shadow?” [al-Furqan 25:45].
Its light is radiance because the natural body was illumined only through the sun’s light, and God has mentioned that He “made the sun a radiance and the moon a light” [Yunus 10:5]. For this reason we call its light radiance: because of the particular face God has within every existent, or because radiance is poured upon the mirror of the fashioned body.
The sun’s radiance thus appears in reflection, as it appears
