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The Honey in the Gnosis of the Eternal - Salman Tahir Abd al-Rahman

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[66] And Al-Sadiq, His glory is mighty, said: Whoever does not purify the Name from the Named, and the attribute from the described, has not worshiped anything.

[67] And He, His glory is mighty, also said: I swore that I will not permit My paradise except to him who knows Me, unifies Me, and purifies My name from Me; for the Name is differed about, and the Meaning is self-subsisting, and the names are an expression.

[68] And Ibn Shu'bah said in "The Realities of the Secrets of Religion": Indeed, Allah, Glory be to Him, when He wills to make the Name absent, He makes it absent under the shimmering of the light of His essence, as an indication that He does not mix with the lights from which He was invented after His separation, nor does He intermingle with them; rather, He is beneath them in the status of bringing into existence for the creation, because the Creator, may He be sanctified, is above it in loftiness.

[69] And from the Egyptian Treatise: Indeed, the Name of the Meaning, His majesty is sublime, is a standing Name, complete by its essence, a living person; its manifest is speaking, knowing, powerful, creating, eternal, abiding, everlasting, one, primordial, who is seen and found, perpetual, continuous,

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