[Al-Ẓāhir], as I previously cited for you some of the available sayings mentioned in the Mosaic and Christic law regarding the permission of the Sabbath and its prohibition, and the clarification of the intent behind prohibition and permission, command and prohibition—and that is to increase [your] insight, guidance, and light upon light. And know, O seeker, that the People of Monotheism [Ahl al-Tawḥīd] have clarified, explained, emphasized, and affirmed that His [the Exalted] intent in mentioning the prayers and their preservation in His Mighty Book is the preservation of the knowledge of the persons [Ashkhāṣ] of their times, their obligations, and their supererogatories [Nawāfil], and the preservation of the knowledge of the persons of their times for each of these persons according to their measure, and the knowledge of all the Inward Gnosis pointed to by the outward [aspects] of those signs, indications, and examples, such as the raising of the hands in the Takbīr and the calling of the Adhan atop the minarets, atop each of which is placed the image of the crescent that resembles the image of the Exalted Lord, and that is by the command of the Prophet (PBUH); and the repetition of the Takbir, the Testimony [Tashahhud], the Bowing [Ruku'], and the Prostration [Sujud] to the ground repeatedly, and the Sitting and the Recitation; and the variation of the arrangement in the prayers of the Eids, the solar and lunar eclipses, the congregational and the individual [prayers], and travel; and the specification of the obligatory and supererogatory for each of the night and day times, and other