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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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He said: 'O assembly of the people of the ranks, degrees, and the special heavenly, Alid, luminous stations that have inhabited the place of elevation: indeed the Ancient, the Unique, Muhammad, manifest in his human world through humanity, produces his essence for them as he produced his essence for you in the luminosity. And indeed his Pre-eternity and his Goal produced him as an inception; He produced His essence from the light of His essence. He is the one who calls His creation to Himself, and He is other than his Pre-eternal One, his Ancient One, and his Goal, the One (al-Ahad). And indeed the place of the light of His essence is the Unique, the Ancient. His knowledge, His elite, the Gate of His will, and the displayer of His power, Salman the Persian, is the very essence of his sun and his heaven. He produced him in all the worlds of his human existence with this attribute and description and made him speak with this tongue. He produced him as he produced his luminous essence for you, and likewise the people of his election and choice, So-and-so and So-and-so.' And he began naming person by person among the Orphans, Nakibs, Nujaba, Specialists, Sincere, and Tested, and the people of the Alid ranks. He displayed that in the Persian tongue, then displayed it in the Arabic tongue, then tongue after tongue until seven tongues had passed in that pole from the first station. Then he ascended to the second station and displayed the like, speaking what he spoke in the third, fourth, and fifth, until that speech was completed in those seven tongues regarding all the varieties of his worlds, metamorphoses, and establishments that he had displayed to him and within him.

When he returned to the face of his station from which he had ascended to the pole, Salman said to him: 'O Abu Dharr, you have scattered (dharayta) the world a second scattering (dharwan) by your production for them of what was produced, and your delivery to them of what you were charged with.'

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