what pertains to each type of cause and result—such as flashes, lightning, and thunder of various kinds, as well as clouds, mists, and fog. It also includes what occurs in the inanimate, plant, animal, and temporal universe through these variations and their results of benefit, harm, good, and evil. All of that—along with its attachments, results, subordinates, and superiors—indicates the cognitions of divine, inward secrets. Allah made this natural water a parable so we may reflect on its significance regarding the inward divine secrets that are hidden from the people of denial.

The People of Monotheism have identified it as the person of the Noble Gate (Al-Bab al-Karim) to indicate the necessity of ascending through the indications pointed to by the types of this water, according to the ranks of the persons and according to the spiritual manifestations corresponding to those ranks. This is so we may know how to sanctify the people of the luminous ranks and divine manifestations from everything that does not befit them; for they are the Independent Ones, exalted above these forms that appear to humans due to their [humans'] need for them and their inability to perceive their essence and know them as they truly are. He has made them see their murky human attributes through this pure water when they look into it, to infer that they see their murky, dark attributes in their vision of the spiritual manifestations. Just as they do not see their attributes in water except through its purity, likewise they would not see their attributes in the manifestations of