Why, is he who was dead, by ignorance, which is the soul, and by his being veiled by its attributes, and We gave him life, through knowledge and love of the Truth, or through the removal of the veils of his attributes by means of the self-disclosures of Our attributes, and appointed for him a light, from Our guidance and Our knowledge, or a light from Our attributes, or a light from Us by Our eternal sustenance of him through Our essence in the measure commensurate with his levels, [is such a person] like one whose attribute is [as] this, that is, [as mentioned in] this statement, which is that he is in the darknesses of his soul and its attributes and its acts from which he is unable to emergeḍ So has been adorned, for those who are veiled, their deeds, and thus they are veiled by them.
