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The Clarification of Wills in the Forms of Acts of Worship - Volume 2 - Habib Eid Al-Saleh

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I will increase your clarification, O inquirer, by mentioning the seventh day so that its glorification over other days does not become ambiguous to you. It is a problematic matter for whoever does not know it. Its meaning is: His intent, the Exalted, by glorifying it in the Torah over the other days is an indication to the glorification of the Greatest Name over the rest of the existences. He only called it the seventh day—and it is the Sabbath day—for an inward meaning, which is that the incapacity that appears regarding the Greatest Name to the people of the Seventh Existence has its locus in the Seventh Existence symbolized by the Sabbath day; it is the other existence, which is the Dust Existence (al-Kon al-Turabi), and for that reason He called it the Sabbath day. This is like the application of the two names "Sun" and "Moon" to the two Guardians, or like the application of the name of Divinity to Moses, according to the saying of the Lord to him in the fourth chapter of the Book of Exodus:

"And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you shall do. And he shall speak for you to the people. And he shall be for you as a mouth, and you shall be for him as a god."

Or like the application of the name "Prophesier" (al-Munabba) to our master Muhammad, who is the Greatest Name and the Most Noble Veil; and that is an indication that the incapacity that appears regarding the Veil is incident upon the Prophesier (al-Munabba); and because it is

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