He, the Exalted, made the seven outward days an example to denote creation (takwin), because the example of the creation of all the worlds of light from all the seven Luminous Existences is like the example of the creation of all ages, years, and months from the seven days through their cycles, one from another.

Know that the days, in another aspect, are the Luminous Manifestations of the Meaning (Ma’na), as are the Existences, the Robes (Hilal), the Revelations (Tajalliyat), the Directions (Jihat), and others. Their outward diversities are examples to denote their inward signified meanings; they are from the perspective of the onlookers, not from the perspective of the One being looked upon. The repetition of the cycles of these seven days is an indication of the affairs (shu’un) of His existences for His creatures.

Just as the days are an indication of His manifestation to the existences; and His manifestations in reality are but one essence, but their diversity is due to the diversity of the existences and their emergence from one another.

And He, the Exalted, commanded in the Torah that no one perform any of the works except in the six days, to denote that we are unable to speak of His Divine Essence (Lahutiyya) except through what He showed us of the attributes of His diverse manifestations,