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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Guidance for the Seeker and the Lamp for the Monotheist - Abu Salih al-Daylami

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And the 'Mim' invented for Him a Gate of Guidance, By the command of his Creator—and thus the test became good.

"Contemplate with your intellect and lend your mind to what this virtuous, expert, and erudite man has presented regarding the miracles of the Most High, the Great—the nature of His Manifestation and Existence, and the negation of [human] attributes from the Worshipped Lord.

After that, he mentioned, described, and named what is necessary and indispensable: the knowledge of the origins of the Orphans and the formation of their being; then the Chiefs (Nuqaba), the Nobles (Nujaba), the Chosen (Mukhtassin), the Sincere (Mukhlisin), and the Tested (Mumtahinin). Following this, he mentioned the letters of the alphabet and the number of their 'Persons,' and he mentioned the Nine Groups of Corrupters.

Then he mentioned Metempsychosis in its four forms: Naskh (transmigration into human form), Maskh (into animals), Faskh (into plants), and Ruskh (into minerals)—as well as Wasakh. He clarified and demonstrated that whoever professes this Monotheism has been saved from these degrees—the degrees of the abyss and the descent—and from wandering through them. Whoever distances himself from that 'scattered dust' (the material world) is saved from all of it.

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