Then this is his master,' without denial.

“Yet that which I said—that he is Allah in truth—

You have forgotten, through your disbelief, my reminder.”

The Prince Hasan bin Makzun, may Allah sanctify him, alluded to this meaning in his poetry, saying:

I believed in the Meaning (al-Ma‘na) to which His Name pointed

On the Day of Ghadir with explicit declaration.

The Meaning of meanings, the Ultimate of goals

The Intellect of the intellect, the Sanctity of sanctity, the Spirit of the spirit.

And among the explicit sayings in revelation (al-kashf) is the sun’s address to him with the famous, astonishing, dazzling, and wondrous declaration, when he greeted it at Baqi‘ al-Gharqad and it returned his greeting by saying to him:

"And upon you be peace, O First, O Last, O Hidden, O Manifest, O You who are Knowing of all things and over all things Competent."

And the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) practiced dissimulation (talbees) toward them by his saying: "As for the meaning of its saying to him: 'O First,' it means the first to embrace Islam. As for the meaning of its saying: 'O Last,' it means the last of the Legatees.