Chapter Six : Clarifying the Intended Meaning in the Book of Allah Regarding the Limit of Prayer and Its Times

Our Sheikh and Master Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khasibi (may Allah sanctify his soul) mentioned the Prayer in his "Water Poem" after mentioning the Water, by his saying:

As Prayer is men Their persons are the interpretation. Fifty persons and one person

A sanctified, joyful [Bahlul] one.

Muhammad, then Fatir, And the two Lions [Hasan and Husayn] are roots.

And all of them, and with them

They are the Guidance and the Path.

I shall present from the explanation of the meanings of these verses what is attached to the previous explanation at the beginning of this blessed poem. It is what Muhammad ibn al-Amir Mu'izz al-Dawla recorded in his "Egyptian Epistle" on the authority of his master Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi (the Favored one), which is this:

"Prayer is Master Muhammad (peace be upon him). It is five [prayers] according to the number of his persons. Likewise, the persons