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Al-Usayfir - Muhammad ibn Shu‘ba al-Harrani

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Then you have indeed perfected the knowledge of the Reality of the Outward and Inward Abstract Form, the locations of the Lights, the Secret of Creation 1, the Originator of the Cosmos, the End of every Gnostic, and the Guidance of every seeker of direction.

And it is the Eternal, Abstract, Divine, Gate-Rank (Al-Martaba al-Babiyya), as it was said:

"There is no entry except from him, and no Gnosis except by him."

Thus, the Form is specific to the Gate, who brought the worlds into existence, manifested the universes, and from whom the Lights appeared.

And he is the End of every Gnostic, the Destination of every Knower, the Witness and the Witnessed, the Extended Shadow of Allah, His Approached Basin (Hawd), His Guiding Path, and His Indicator who leads to Him.

And he is the Form of Existence—Outward and Inward—the Goal of seeking knowledge, and the Totality of Existence.

And he is the Divine Body, the Tree of Tuba, the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary (Sidrat al-Muntaha), and the Garden of Refuge (Jannat al-Ma'wa). To him is the Return and the End, and by him is Death and Life. And Allah the Almighty has said:

{You are not over them a controller. However, he who turns away and disbelieves - then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.}2

Footnotes

1The Secret of Creation: This is clarified by what came in the Hadith Qudsi:"I was a Hidden Treasure, and I loved to be known; so I created creation, and through Me they knew Me."
2Surah Al-Ghashiyah, Verse 23.
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