Concerning the Knowledge of the Names of the Meaning—Exalted be His Glory—in the Manifestations, and His Names in Various Languages

We have previously mentioned the names of our Master Amir Almuminin—exalted be his glory—pertaining to His manifestation in Essence, which belong to Him specifically in the reality of invocation and indications when seeking needs from Him and toward Him. As for the names of our Master—exalted be His mention—in which none other shares and which are exclusive to Him, they are: The Meaning (al-Ma‘na), the Ancient, the Pre-eternal, the One, the Peerless, the Besought, and the High. These are seven names mentioned by our sheikh al-Khasibi—may God ennoble his station—at the end of a section in his small epistle known as al-Rastabashiyya.

We have scooped from the sea of his knowledge; to him belongs the favor upon us for what we have understood, and for him is our explanation and clarification. These are the names of His Essence in which He was unique in pre-eternity. It is mandatory for the knowing believer to invoke none but Him by them, for they are names exclusive to His spiritual Essence. Flowing in the same course as these seven Essential names are others which must not be used to invoke the Name—exalted be his glory—namely: The Meaning of Meanings, the Lord of the Seven Oft-Repeated Verses, the Cause of Causes, the Ultimate Goal, the End of Ends, the God of gods, the Pre-eternalizer of the Pre-eternal, the Eternalizer of the Eternal, the Luminous Living One, the Living, the Sustainer, the Prince of Bees, the High, the Great, Amir Almuminin, and similar names which none but He may be called.

He—exalted be His mention—possesses many names in the Quran upon which there is general consensus, yet their inward reality is known only to the Elite. They are famous, and we mention of them what fulfills our intended purpose and informs the explanation we have adopted. These names in the Magnificent Quran are: