And know, my brother—may I be your ransom—that Ali bin Muhammad narrated to me, through men he mentioned, tracing the tradition back to Jabir bin Yazid al-Ju'fi, peace be upon him, who said: I heard the Abundant Provider of Light (Baqir al-Nur) saying—mighty is He as a Speaker—to a delegation of Persians: "Awaken, may Allah have mercy upon you, in the light of your Lord towards the Light of Allah, and you shall find what you desire. For every degree there is a rank, and for every rank there is a degree, to which none ascend except the patient. And Allah, Majestic is His mention, has sketched for five of the Possessors of Resolve (Ulu al-'Azm) five of these Epiphanies, because He shone for each one of them with one of its attributes, or two, or three, or four, as He—Majestic is He as a Speaker—said: {Praise be to Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth} ¹ ; meaning the seven genera of the celestial, heavenly Veils and the seven terrestrial, dust-related Gate-veils (al-Babiyya).