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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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The Manifest, existing through the radiant and holy tresses; the Subduer, worshipped within the luminous and celestial pavilions. The Prominent, sheathed within the revolving and encompassing spheres; the Veiled, witnessed through the totality of mindful beings. He is the Universal Light, the brilliant and singular one with a sublime luster—the ray of the flashing brilliance of the essential and sublime robes. He is the sender of the heavy, crescent-shaped, and pouring clouds, the bringer of the accumulated and overflowing masses, the creator of the clouds through the stormy winds, the lighter of the growing and swift lightnings, and the softener of the crashing and thundering roars.

He is the One whom eyes cannot perceive in the creation of His "how-ness," nor can doubts or essential minds encompass the pride of His awe. Hidden thoughts have not reached the majesty of His quiddity, nor have the gazes of clear eyes glimpsed the great might of His eternal splendors. He is named by the realization of the Seven Original and Sacred Truths (al-Arnuṣiyya) through His concealment in the eternity of eternities, before the "before," from the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth—which are the Seven Luminous and Revealing Realities.

He manifested through the subtle scrutiny of the seven shadowy and spiritual solar points. Through justice, intimacy, kindness, and grace, He appeared in the Essential Personified Domes within the Seven Green, Ear-of-Corn, and Essential Stations. He is the Ancient Meaning (al-Ma‘nā al-Qadīm), the Manifest, the Prominent, the Subduer, existing at the dawn of youth as a brilliant light. He is the Observed Eternity, watched at the side of the Qibla of the Light of the Veiled One—the Single, the Eternal, the Steadfast, the Solid Closure, and the Hidden Essence. He is witnessed toward the Western Mount, gazing as a dormant light—the High, the Most High, Possessor of Majesty, and the Essence of Perfection and Beauty, realized in the hidden secret at the edge of the West, above the "above."

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