" Let us return to those gifts which are either the gifts proceding from the Essence or the
Names. As for the favours, gifts and graces of the Essence, they only come by means of
divine tajalli. (7) Tajalli only comes from the Essence by means of the form of the
predisposition of the one to whom the tajalli is made. It never occurs otherwise. The one who
receives the tajalli will only see his own form in the mirror of the Real. He will not see see
the Real, for it is not possible to see Him. At the same time, he knows that he sees only his
own form. It is the same as a mirror in the Visible world inasmuch as you see forms in it or your own form but do not see the mirror. At the same time, however, you know that you see
the forms, or your own form, only by virtue of the mirror. Allah manifests that as a model (8)
appropriate to the tajalli of His Essence, so that the one receiving the tajalli knows that he
does not see Him. There is no model nearer or more appropriate to vision and tajalli than this.
When you see a form in a mirror, try to see the body of the mirror as well - you will never see
it. It is true that some people who perceive this say that the reflected form is imposed between
the vision of the seer and the mirror. This is the most that it is possible to say, and the matter
is as we have mentioned. We have clarified this in the The Makkan Revelations. "

― Ibn Arabi , The Bezels of Wisdom