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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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And it is a book translated as the book: [The Chair, the Heart, and the Quran], we summarized from the place of need for it:

Indeed, God created its elements four: [Knowledge, Power, Will, and Volition] and He dwelled the four spirits in them: [The Spirit of Holiness, the Spirit of Faith, the Spirit of the Possessor of Ascents, and the Spirit of Command].

So the batin [inner aspect] of its elements are the spirits, so all of them are on the earth. And He planted the elements upon the Manifest Water which He created without a phantom, by Power, with no shore and no limits, subsisting a subsistence not non-existent.

And it is His saying: {And We made from water every living thing. Then will they not believe?}1.

And His Throne was upon the water, then the Air appeared by the Bada' [Initiation/Appearing], and the Bada' is from the Will. So the water and the air cast a shadow, then He originated from that shadow a darkness, and the darkness is dark. And He said: {And He made the darknesses and the light}2.

Footnotes

1Surah Al-Anbiya – Verse 30
2Surah Al-An'am – Verse
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