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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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And the Name is the one which doubles and enters into the number, and it is in its number and its numbers one, and it is the Meem, and the Gate is the oneness, and there is nothing other than it.

So this is the ultimate end of all existents, from which the servant is not demanded except with it and with its knowledge and its affirmation, and this is the origin of clarification, demonstration, and explanation in eloquence, and likewise the believer testifies upon himself during a travel that overtakes him, and a transition that attaches to him, by the affirmation of it, and asks Allah for steadfastness upon it.

So if this man stands firm upon what its mention preceded, and insisted upon it, and did not turn away from it, then he is your brother, for the reality is upon what you mentioned, and otherwise cast him behind your back.

For he is as our master said in a poem of his:

And leaving them in their ignorance of the Prince of Bees, the Possessor of Favors

And His essence is hidden, concealed, a reason that lurked

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