Whenever a pointer indicates a conceptual or incidental meaning through intellectual and sensory verbal speech without a form, it possesses no reality until it is partitioned in affirmation, conceptualized in the mind, and qualified by the Limits (al-Ḥudūd); only then is it judged by negation or affirmation."

"He also established this meaning in his book, saying: 'Know—may Allah grant you success in opening the treasures and solving the symbols—that these Names which appeared in this Muhammadian Dome (al-Qubba al-Muḥammadiyya) are the Men (Rijāl) of every period, era, age, and time. They appear with rulings that necessitate the recognition of the primal realities flowing from the Sea of Pre-eternity into the place of eternity for everlasting subsistence, so that they may be a constitution of Gnosis (Maʿrifa), the worship of the Merciful, and the punishment of Satan—plainly manifest regarding the stripping and the clothing (al-khalʿ wa al-labs), and a protection at the blowing of the whims of the soul (ahwiya al-nafs). So, if someone asks us: 'What are these Names? What is their specific property? And what is the benefit of mentioning them?'"

"We say to him: These Names are to the Universal Form (al-ṣūra al-kulliyya) what the powers are to the moving, active limbs and organs in the Particular Form (al-ṣūra al-juzʾiyya).