It has been transmitted in the commentaries of the people of Monotheism [Ahl al-Tawhid] that the 'Praiseworthy Fire' [al-nar al-mahmudah] represents the Sacred Presence: the four Orphans [al-Aytam al-Arba'ah] in their unified gathering upon the Hidden Secret [al-sirr al-maknun]. They are all one from the perspective of the esoteric Secret, yet distinct in their standalone personal traits when their individual configurations separate. The Holy Spirit [al-ruh al-qudsiyyah] is the root of the Divine Secret; He has deposited His knowledge within it, making it the gravitational pull of the hearts 1 , and the Divine Secret is that which attracts them.
And he also said in the Book of Admonition [Kitab al-Tanbih] regarding the explanation of the unity of the soul: 'Know, my brothers—may Allah have mercy upon you—that the ultimate reality of man, which constitutes his distinct essence and by which he is demarcated from all other animals, is a single, unified reality sanctified above divergence and multiplicity within its own essence. Indeed, all that happens to it is due only to the bodily temperament [al-mizaj],




