I asked him about the person of Mina and the person of al-Muzdalifa? He said: Mina is Amina [the Prophet's mother], and al-Muzdalifa is Fatima bint Asad.

I asked him about the persons of the Waymarks [Al-Masha'ir]? He said: They are the uncles of the Prophet and his children.

I asked him about the person of Zamzam? He said: It is Fatir [Fatima].

Similar to this is what the Amir Hasan bin Makzun (may Allah sanctify him) bestowed upon us from the knowledge of the inward meanings of the Hajj, its symbols, rituals, and necessities in his Ra'iyya poem, the opening of which is:

The setting of the Sun and the rising of the Moon

And the Star of the morning when the night departs.

Until his saying:

Far be it for anyone to understand me except a Youth [Fata],

Who performed Hajj as my Hajj and performed Umrah as mine.

And due to Allah from the people is a pilgrimage to the House- for whoever is able to find thereto a way

Similar to this is what he provided in the fifth chapter of Tazkiyat al-Nafs [Purification of the Soul], saying:

Know—O brother, may Allah grant you success in walking His path—that the Hajj which Allah made obligatory upon every person capable of