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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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By count, they are fifty-two units and fifty-two personages, because the two units performed while sitting are considered one unit in the outward, due to the consensus that the prayer of one sitting is equal to half the prayer of one standing.

Muhammad, then Fatir, and the two Shubbars are the Roots.

All are with them and from them, they are the Guidance and the Path.

Lord Muhammad — exalted be his glory — is the Noon, because it is the first of the prayers and he is the personage of the Ha’at [plural of the letter H] and the beginning of their manifestation from him. Through him, God manifests His affair outwardly and inwardly; therefore, it was named the Noon, and he is the personage of the Noon prayer.

As for the personage of the Afternoon prayer, it is Lord Fatir — exalted be his glory — because it was "squeezed" (unasarat) from the Lord Mim, and there is no prayer after it during the day. This means: the Meaning — Exalted — did not manifest the Name after it in the feminine form, nor did he appear before it through the vulva and abundance except in this Hashemite Cycle, due to the manifestation of the three Ha’at from her.

The personage of the Sunset prayer is our Master al-Hasan. The Prophet — exalted be his glory — never abandoned it whether at home or on a journey, nor did he command us to shorten it. It is the "Middle Prayer" which God the Mighty and Sublime commanded to be maintained, saying: {Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers and the middle prayer and stand before God, devoutly obedient}1. All of this is in magnification and glorification of Lord al-Hasan, because the first manifestation of the Meaning — exalted be His mention — in the line of Imamate was in his likeness.

Footnotes

1Surah Al-Baqara – Verse 238
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