So the door to knowledge of God to the exclusion of anything else is closed in its essence, and it is what is required by manifestation, so creation is in the eye of ignorance of this that we have mentioned, except for those who have mercy on God. The Mu’tazilites were correct in their denial of the vision, not in their evidence for it. If it had not mentioned its significance, we would have imagined that it knew the matter as the people of God taught it. But in its significance, it was as some of them said to his companion when he told him what he liked and he took it. When he mentioned to him the chain of transmission for what he had mentioned, that joy disappeared from him and he said to him: “It was spoiled when it was attributed.” Whoever does not know God like this does not know the knowledge required of him .