What clarification could be clearer, greater, or more revealing? And what witness is more binding and decisive than the witness of the Quran through the interpretation (Ta'wil) of the Master Messenger—Glorified be His Might—and his guidance toward his Lord, the "Eye" (Al-'Ayn), that He is his ultimate goal and his Meaning (Ma'na), and that He is the Worshiped God, the Manifest, the Present? So, Exalted is He who manifests as He wills to whom He wills; there is no god but He;

in Him I have put my trust, and to Him I turn. As for the testimonies in the four books—which are: the Psalms (Zabur), the Torah, the Gospel, and the Great Quran—they are too numerous to be counted in a single book, and they are the Speech of the Name (Al-Ism). Likewise, the testimony of the Meaning (Al-Ma'na) for Himself in His manifestations and theophanies is something no human can fully encompass. We only cite of that which does not weary the reader or the listener; and were it not for

my knowledge of the noble believers—may Allah grant them all success in His obedience—that whenever they gather for study and discourse in the gatherings of Monotheism (Tawhid), they inevitably need an exquisite book containing reports, traditions, and branches (funun) of the core of the hidden knowledge and the stored secret, [I would not have written this].