[ That man was in the divine image ]
And know that since man is an example of the divine image, he is like a shadow of the person who does not depart from him in any case, except that he sometimes appears to the senses and sometimes is hidden, so if he is hidden, he is intelligible in him, and if he appears, he is witnessed by sight to whoever sees him, then the perfect human being in truth is intelligible in him, like a shadow if it is hidden in the sun, then it is not He appears, and man has not ceased from time to time and for this reason he was witnessed to the truth from the fact that he was described as having sight, so when he extended the shadow from him, he appeared in his form. Have you not seen to your Lord how He extends the shadow, and if He had willed, He could have made it stationary, i.e. fixed, in the One whose shadow it is, so He does not extend it, and no eye appears to Him in sensory existence except For God alone, He has not ceased to be with God, and He is still with God, for He is eternal throu