“If I say(1), ‘You have vanished,’ my heart will not credit me, for you—may my soul be ransomed for you—are within it and have never been absent.
And if I say, ‘You have not vanished,’ my eye retorts, ‘That is a lie,’
so I stand perplexed between truth and falsehood.

Another said:

I yearn for him while he(2) dwells in my heart—
marvel, then, at one(3) who longs for his own heart!

Whoever’s nature is hard and whose understanding is too dense(4) to grasp such subtleties will find it easy to read the wording of the scriptures as though the very Essence of Allah were to indwell the human form, unite with it, and mingle with it. Exalted is Allah, immeasurably high above what the unbelievers claim.

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If you say, “We deemed him divine(5) on the strength of Isaiah’s statement: ‘Among the most wondrous marvels is that the Lord of the angels shall be born of humankind,’ (6)”

the reply is: Leaving aside the need to establish that these words truly belong to Isaiah, that they have not been altered in transmission from one translation to another, and that they are not detached from the context before and after them—as clear evidence shows—this very phrase proves that he is a created, fashioned being, and that he(7) is the son of man, born of him, not of the One, the Ever-Self-Sufficient, who “begets not, nor is He begotten, and there is none comparable unto Him.”