Khamsah)—as luminous persons (al-Ashkhas al-Nuraniyyah) and gnoses of the divine secrets (Ma'arif al-Asrar al-Ilahiyyah); and clarifying the corruption of what the literalists/people of the exoteric (Ahl al-Zahir) claim regarding the interpretation of the verses upon other than their correct face.

Know, O asker—may God Almighty cause you to reach what pleases Him of knowledge and acting upon it—that the application of the names of the Five Limits runs the course of what we clarified in the introduction. That is, He Almighty has named for us the luminous persons and the gnoses of the esoteric divine secrets in His Mighty Book with the names of fasting (al-Sawm), prayer (al-Salah), pilgrimage (al-Hajj), almsgiving (al-Zakat), and struggle (al-Jihad), and other than that..

And likewise, the prophets and the legatees (al-Awsiya'), upon us from them be mercy, have pointed to the forms of these apparent Five Limits and to those esoteric meanings and persons, and they applied to them the names of persons and gnoses (wa al-Ma'arif), and they commanded the people to use those exemplary forms (al-Suwar al-Mithaliyyah). Just as the Prophet (PBUH) commanded placing the form of the crescent (Surat al-Hilal) atop the minarets because it resembles the form of the Exalted Lord (Surat al-Rabb al-Muta'al); and just as God Almighty commanded Adam, peace be upon him, to build the House which is in Bakkah [Mecca] and to circumambulate (Tawaf) around it to remind us of the heavenly Throne (al-'Arsh al-Samawi) and the