They clarify so that we may travel the paths of guidance It was said, but he did not listen and did not desist
How many times for the adversary in his shirts Hear, for in their realization is wisdom
Three whose inward is one And the inward of the inward belongs to the Meaning
So it, upon a totality, contains The light, the shadow, and the illumination, O my brother
[63] And from the Mufaddaliyyah Treatise, Al-Sadiq, His glory is mighty, said: Know, O Mufaddal, that the One Most High, when He is manifest to His creation, appears with three veils, from them He veils His essence with His light, and He veils His light with His illumination, and He veils His illumination with His shadow, and they are lights, neither bodies nor skins. And the Anza’iyyah form is the essence of the light, the illumination, and the shadow, and His Greatest Name, which is the One from the invented light, and the invented light is the veil of the Essence, and these three are the totality of the reality of the Mim.
[64] And the Master, Abu Abdillah, His glory is mighty, said: Glory be to Him who veiled His essence with His light, and His light with His illumination, and His illumination with His shadow,




