It was said to him: "O our Master, how did the Meaning manifest in the Hashemite Muhammadan Dome as al-Anza' al-Batin, specifically among all other 'Domes,' to both the elite and the common folk?"
He replied: "As for the Elite (al-Khawass): they saw what they had never ceased to see and witness; they saw what they had known in the Day of Shadows (Yawm al-Azilla), they were inspired to remember Him, and were called to His obedience and Gnosis."
"As for the People of Impurity (Ahl al-Kadar): when they saw Him as al-Anza' al-Batin, they denied Him and disbelieved in Him. They were blinded to Him and to His Gnosis after having witnessed Him; they rejected and apostatized from Him after having known Him. They [only] remembered the First Call of the Day of Shadows, and thus it became a proof against them. The witness to this is the words of the Exalted: {Then when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of Allah is upon the disbelievers} 1 ."
"His manifestation in this 'Dome' as an unveiling (Kashf) in the form of al-Anza' al-Batin was for both the elite and the common folk. This is because your Dome is the last of the Domes, your Law is the last of the Laws, and your Speaker (Natiq) is the last of the Speakers. Even though all Domes are [in essence] one, all Laws are one, and the Speaker is one—who is the Mim (م) in all manifestations—there is nothing after this