is the seventh existence, which is the holiness of gnosis and the location of every attribute, by which Allah justifies the truth and falsifies falsehood upon the existence of the entire universe, and it is the intellect within its subjects, and the existence within its identity, and it is the Greatest Name.
And the Sheikh Mahmoud, in his life, in his treatise "The Gift of the Chosen Ones" [Tuhfat al-Akhyar], said: The intellect is a light that shines upon the souls like the shining of the sun’s light upon the rest of the horizons; so it illuminates from the clear, transparent bodies like glass, crystal, and what resembles it of the luminous gems, and its light penetrates into their interior due to the clarity of their gem-essence and the transparency of their body, and the dark bodies like stone and mud are prevented from it, so the shining does not affect them, nor does it reach their interior, and they do not illuminate at all due to their darkness, turbidity, and lack of clarity of their gem-essence, so the lights are reflected away from it and return to their origins; and likewise the human bodies and the clay temples, when they are immersed in vile malicious acts and satanic lusts, engrossed in transient pleasures, they do not accept the shining of the illuminating beams of the intellect's lights and are not affected by them,




