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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Egyptian Epistle - Muhammad ibn Muqatil al-Qati'i

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It contains the knowledge of the manifestations of the Veil through Prophecy and the Book in the human cycle, from Adam to the Lord Muhammad—exalted be his glory.

This is what my father, lord, and sheikh gifted me in his epistle which he sent to me, granting me the authorization to relate its contents from him. My Master—may God sanctify his soul—who is my sheikh Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, said: Know, my son—may God grant you enjoyment through the intimate conversation of Remembrance, save you from the onset of heedlessness and denial, and make you among those who heard and understood, looked and realized, and knew and desisted. May He not try you in His religion, and may He grant you [grace] as He does for those whose hearts He illuminated with the light of His certainty; indeed, He is All-Hearing, Near.

Adam—exalted be his glory—is the Lord Muhammad, the Supreme Name and the most Noble Veil. He is pure Mim because he is the first of the nine Essential Nominal manifestations. Eve is Khadija bint Khuwaylid. The Meaning—exalted be his glory—manifested His first appearance in this Adamite Cycle in His Essence and Reality as Abel son of Adam—exalted be his glory. He manifested the Occultation at the hand of his brother Cain—glory be to Him who neither vanishes nor ceases, neither changes nor transforms, and is too exalted for the perception of those of intellect.

The Gate—peace be upon him—was Gabriel, a hidden luminous being with Adam; he remained as such until the manifestation of Enoch (Idris)—exalted be his glory. The Adversary was manifest through three persons: Cain, his sister Anaq (whom he married in opposition to Adam's command), and his son Og ibn Anaq (Iwaj). Cain married his sister Anaq just as al-Khattab married his mother Sahak, who then bore the Second, Umar—he is the Adversary, may God curse him in every turn and cycle, even if his name changes.

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