Regarding the Night of Power, there is a transmission [Sama'] related to me by Sheikh Abu al-Haytham Siri bin Hamdan, Yunus al-Da'udi, and Hammud al-Masri (may Allah be pleased with them all), with no disagreement among them, from our Master Abu Abd Allah al-Khasibi (may Allah brighten his face). They asked him about the saying of Allah (the Exalted):

{Indeed, We sent it down during the Night of Power. And what can make you know what is the Night of Power? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the rising of the dawn.} (Al-Qadr 1-5).

He said: The Night of Power is Umm Salama, the person of the Master Salman. "The angels and the Spirit descend therein": the angels are the Orphans. "By permission of their Lord": Salman the Gate. "For every matter, Peace": Peace is Salman, to whom submission [Taslim] is due. "Until the rising of the dawn."

This is my hearing from them; so let our opponent say what he wishes.

The Prince Hasan bin Makzun—may Allah sanctify his soul—has graced us with what he established regarding the meaning of Fasting in his treatise, saying: "As for the preservation of God's secret, it is a sanctification of Him from the ears of the doubters,