Introduction

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

My Lord, Prince of the Believers, I testify that there is no god but You, with sincere intention and certainty, believing that You are the Unitary Essence and the Eternal Goal Whom we worship and to Whom we point, and in Whom we take refuge and seek protection, confirming and acknowledging that there is no lord worshiped other than You, and no god except You Who exists, for You are the High, the One, the Singular, the Eternal Refuge, Who neither begets nor is born, and there is no one equal to Him, the Exalted above the description of the describers and the attributes of the originated. So I ask You, O Allah, to pray upon Your Greatest Name, our master Muhammad, and upon Your Most Noble Gate, our glorious master Salman, and pray, O Allah, upon the number of the worlds of light, who are exalted above impurities and turbidities kk .

And after: You asked me, O noble brother and close friend, to clarify for you the meaning of negation and affirmation in the knowledge of the Self,