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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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Not out of need did He invent 1 it, nor out of futility did He originate it; rather, creation is His act, so He has never ceased to be a Creator, and speech is His indication, so He has never ceased to be a Speaker 2.

And His blessings be upon His Invented Light and His Originated Veil—He formed him so he became His locus, and established him so He brought his visible presence into existence. And [blessings be] upon His Gate, the guide to His rectitude, and the path to His purpose. And upon His Orphans (Aytaam), His Chiefs (Nuqaba), His Nobles (Nujaba), His Elect, His Sincere Ones, and His Tested Ones. And upon all the worlds of His Holiness, and the locus of the radiance of His intimacy, and those who join them all together. And grant [them] abundant peace until the Day of Resurrection and Judgment3.

Footnotes

1THE SUBSTANCE: The singular is Jawharah, plural Jawahir: The Existent subsisting by itself, and opposed to it is The Accident. And The Singular Substance [The Atom/Monad] is that which is indivisible, meaning it does not accept division. And The Celestial Substances: The Spheres, or the Stars, or the Spirits.
2THUS HE SHALL NEVER CEASE SPEAKING
3[THE UNIQUE (AL-YATIM): The singular of everything; everything whose peer is rare/cherished.][THE CHIEF (AL-NAQIB): Plural Nuqaba’: The witness of the people, their guarantor, their monitor, and their master; he was named such because he investigates (yanqubu) their affairs.][THE NOBLE (AL-NAJIB): Plural Anjab, Nujaba’, and Nujub; singular Najib and Najibah, plural Naja’ib: The virtuous, the precious in his kind.][EXCLUSIVE (MUKHTASS): To be distinguished by the thing: To be solitary with it.]
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