 What exactly are things? They are the concomitants (lawâzim) of Being, or the potentialities of manifestation latent in Infinite Possibility, or the never-ending delimitations of the Nondelimited. If a thing is found in the cosmos, it is a specific self-disclosure of Real Being, a face of God, a word articulated in the All-Merciful Breath, a color made visible by the radiance of Light. Inasmuch as things appear, they display Being and its attributes; inasmuch as their receptivity is delimited and defined, they act as veils. Each is a barzakh, an imaginal thing, simultaneously an image of Being and an image of nothingness.