claims that the Name (al-Ism) is originated, assuming his statement is true?

The answer was: 'This is something I have never explained before, out of caution for the hidden secret of God. However, you have compelled me to address it, so it must be clarified. Know: that the Name (al-Ism) is originated (muhdath) from the Primordiality (al-Qidam), yet it is Primordial (Qadim) to all other originated beings.'

[The Prince adds]: 'Reflect, my master—may God grant you happiness through His obedience and success in His pleasure—upon the words of our Sheikh (may God ennoble his station) regarding the Unveiled Form (al-Surah al-Anza’iyya), and how he singled it out for Primordiality above all other manifestations... [leading] to his statement regarding the Name: "originated from the Primordiality."'

'Had the Unveiled Form been as this man described it—may God forgive him—our Master would not have characterized it with Primordiality, Meaningness (al-Ma'nawiyya), Divinity (al-Ta'alluh), and Everlastingness.'

'We ask God for steadfastness in His gnosis and for success in His obedience.'

He says in another place in his treatise: 'The manifestation of the Meaning (al-Ma’na) is One; it does not double into a number,