The scholar and jurist Hassan ibn Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Shirazi excelled in what he established at the beginning of the fourth warning, saying: "The Creator—the Exalted—is One Ahad; One from the aspect of the Name, Ahad from the aspect of the Essence (Al-Dhat)."

I say: All the People of Oneness believe that the Meaning is always Ahad, the Name is always Wahid, and the Gate is always Wahdaniyya. The intent behind their saying that the Meaning is "Ahad" forever is that nothing shares in His Essence across all celestial and terrestrial manifestations. Allah the Exalted has made for us these temporal conditions—of days, nights, times, weeks, months, seasons, years, and others—to remind us and guide us through their outward forms to the Inward Meanings intended by them. He has made all of that through the medium of the Sun and the Moon, their rising, their setting, and their course.

Just as the formation of all beings was only through the medium of the Greatest Name (Al-Ism al-A'zam), to whom the Pre-eternal Meaning (Al-Ma'na al-Aqdam) delegated authority and supported with Divine Power. The proof of this is the rising and setting of the Sun, from which days, nights, times, weeks, and months originated; and the crescent of the Moon, from which the count of the lunar