The Qadr (Power/Measure) is the Master Muhammad, and Fatimah is his secret, his essence, and his light; and she is He.'
The sixth night is the Night of the Middle of Sha'ban, the mention of which has preceded. It is more excellent than the [other] five nights because Allah—glorified be He—says concerning it: 'Indeed, We sent it down during a blessed night. Indeed, We were to warn [mankind]. On that night is made distinct every precise matter' 1 . The 'precise matter' (al-amr al-hakim) is al-Hasan and al-Husayn, and the Stations (al-maqamat), up to the final line of Imamate. It [the night] appeared in the feminine form only to manifest the Stations through it, as a concealment (talbis) upon the inverted creation.
In this meaning is the report of the Naqib Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Zahiri. When he was veiled [from the truth], the Gnostics (al-'arifun) asked him, saying: 'O our Master, by what were you veiled, and for what cause?' He said to them: 'I saw the Supreme Master, Muhammad al-Hamd, in seventy stations, and I did not doubt him; but when I saw him in this Muhammadan Dome—and all domes are Muhammadan—and he manifested with the farj (the vulva) and the hair, in the feminine form, so I lowered my gaze as one who doubts him, and thus I was veiled.'