Our souls departed, and we became like the dead; we did not know or comprehend, except that we were in a dream, seeing what a sleeper sees, our souls having departed our bodies until an hour of the day passed over us; then we recovered, finding ourselves like the state of a sleeper when he awakens from his slumber. We saw the Messenger of Allah—Glorified be His Might—and he said to us: "How long did you remain?" We said: "An hour or part of an hour." He said: "Rather, you remained for seven nights and eight days." Consequently, two men from the group recanted in disbelief and said: "This is clear magic! Shall we believe in two mortals like ourselves, while their people are our servants?" Those two men were the First and the Second [caliphs]—may Allah curse them—they shall never cease nor desist from their disbelief, obstinacy, and tyranny, for they are the mother of all devilry and satanism.

Whenever the Meaning (al-Ma'na) and His Name (al-Ism) manifested a dazzling miracle, those two attributed it to magic and soothsaying. We shall mention some of that, if Allah the Exalted wills.

Regarding the oath that the Master Muhammad—Glorified be His Might—swore by his Lord, his Ultimate Goal, and his Meaning, and his speech in witnessing His Lordship and explicitly declaring His Divine Reality (al-Ma'nawiyya), which is his saying: "By the might of Your Might, and the majesty of Your Grandeur, and the greatness of Your Kingdom,