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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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That is only an indication and an example to denote that the existence which appeared to Moses is a god to Aaron, and also to denote that the names and attributes are situated upon the Greatest Name. Indeed, all the People of Oneness establish that the application of the Name of Majesty (Allah) upon the Greatest Name is a transcendence for the Meaning (Ma'na) and an honoring for the Name (Ism).

Like it is what appeared in the seventh chapter of the Book of Exodus: "Then the Lord said to Moses: 'See! I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land...'"

This indicates that it is not appropriate for everyone named with the name of the Lord, or with the name of Allah, or with the name of a deity, that we make him the worshipped one. Likewise, it is not appropriate for everyone whose name precedes the name of another that we make him the better one, such as His saying: {The angels and the Spirit ascend} (Al-Ma'arij). He mentioned the Spirit—who is Gabriel—after the angels.

Returning to the purpose I intend from the clarification of the inward of the seven days symbolized by the seven existences: it is that the Meaning (Ma'na) mentioned the seventh existence last and applied the name of the Sabbath to it in another aspect, different from the first aspect, to indicate the glorification of the Greatest Name and its preference over

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