meanings other than the meanings He intended through the rulings of the law that preceded it, according to the saying of the Exalted in Surah al-Baqarah: {Whatever We abrogate of a verse or cause it to be forgotten - We bring forth [one] better than it or similar to it} (Al-Baqarah 106).

The Ahl al-Bayt and others from the worlds of light—such as Sheikh al-Khasibi, Al-Jinan, and their followers from the noble disciples and master scholars—have clarified what they have clarified regarding the symbols of the celestial books, their indications, their parables, their proofs, their abrogating and abrogated [verses], their firm and ambiguous [verses], their inward and outward, the specific and the general, the praised and the censured, the lawful and the forbidden, the command and the prohibition... and other than that of their meanings and interpretations (Ta'wilat) which no one knows in their perfection except Allah.

I have clarified for you, O seeker, a portion of the parables struck with this manifest water and many verses, mentioning some but not all of them.

So, gain insight, my brother, into their meanings: it is that this natural water—represented by the manifested existence of the Luminous Gate (Al-Bab) station, which is the manifested example for all persons of the luminous and human universes, each according to a known measure—is, along with all its manifest types such as rain (Al-Matar), drizzle (Al-Wadaq), and the passing cloud (Al-Arid) and the pouring rain (Al-