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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Epistle of Nasih al-Dawlah - Jaysh bin Muhammad bin Mahraz

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out of caution for the hidden secret of Allah, but you have bound me to a matter that must be clarified. Know that the Name is created from the Ancient, anciently for the rest of the created ones.

So ponder, O my master, may Allah make you happy with His obedience, and grant you success for His satisfaction, the saying of our master, may Allah honor his station, regarding the Anza'iyyah form and his singling it out for eternity apart from the rest of the manifestations, and to his saying regarding the Name: that it is created from the Ancient.

And if the Anza'iyyah form were as he described it and mentioned its miracles for a man other than Allah, our master would not have pointed to it with eternity, meaningness, and permanence.

We ask Allah for steadfastness upon His knowledge and success for His obedience.

And he said in another place of his epistles: And the manifestation of the Meaning is one, eternally, it does not double into a number. And he said: He does not manifest except by His essence, so He does not manifest in a form nor a likeness,

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