There is nothing in his outward appearance except these seven, and the heart is the eighth of them, and he removes contemplation from himself altogether, for it disperses his concern and secludes himself from monitoring his heart at the door of his Lord. Perhaps God will open for him the door to Him and teach him what he did not know, from what the Messengers and the people of God taught him, from what the minds were not independent in perceiving and referring to. So if he opens God for the owner of this heart, this door, granted him a divine manifestation. He gave him that manifestation according to his judgment, so he attributes to God something about him that he had not previously dared to attribute to God, Glory be to Him, and did not describe him with it except to the extent that the divine reports came with him, so he takes it as an imitation, and now he takes that as a corresponding revelation. Page 272 of the Cairo edition]

Supporting with him what was spoken by the revealed books and came on the tongues of the Messengers, peace be upon them, so he used to describe it in imitative faith, without verifying its meanings, and did not add to it, and now he refers to it in himself, the Almighty, as a verified knowledge of it. Yes, that is the matter that has been revealed to him, so it is according to what that matter gives him, and he knows the meaning of what it expresses and what the truth of that is.

[ The confusion of the people of God and the confusion of the people of insight ]

So he imagines in the first manifestation that he has reached the goal and attained the command and that there is nothing behind that that he seeks except the continuation of that, so another manifestation occurs for him with another ruling. What is that?