purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and hands with it. Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you that you may be grateful} (Al-Ma'idah 6).

The outward of this matter is understood. As for its inward, it is a command from the Meaning (Mighty is His Might) to the believers—when they turn toward the Greatest Veil, which is the inward of Prayer and the Face of Pre-eternity (Mighty is His Might) toward which one turns—to sanctify His persons in the manifestations of the unseen and the witnessed from the sayings of the doubters, through the knowledge of the Most Noble Gate, which is the inward of the Water that gives life to everything.

Reference was made to this in the saying of the Exalted: {And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?} (Al-Anbiya 30). "Thing" is more general than the physical compounds that require water to survive; it encompasses the intellects, the angels, and the separate souls.

Were the intended meaning the manifest water, the ruling of this verse would be invalidated, as not all things possess life through it. This