Just as it indicates the increase of the doers of good among them through Divine knowledge and action, and the exchange by the aforementioned wrongdoers of an exoteric statement—through its deceptive concealment (talbis) upon them—for that which was [actually] said to them of the esoteric gnoses through its explicit declaration, conveyance, and unveiling, as a recompense for what they persisted in of denial and the denial and hostility toward the People of Truth. It also indicates the sending down of the wrath (al-rijz) through verbal and physical dissimulation (talbis) and exemplary depiction in the revealed Heavenly Books, and His manifestation—Exalted is He—to them in human states.

And [it indicates] the recompense for them for their defiant disobedience by affirming the dissimulation—represented here by the sending down of this wrath upon them—and [it indicates] Moses’ seeking of water for his believing people from the Divine celestial gnoses.

And [it indicates] His command—Exalted is He—to him to strike with the Staff, which is the exemplar of celestial existence, so that he might strike an example therewith also regarding the Rock of Meaning (al-hujra al-ma‘nawiyya), and the gushing forth of the twelve springs, which are the exemplars of the Celestial Arabic Festivals, and the knowledge of every people among them of their watering place (mashrab) from the springs of religious gnoses.