[78] And our eminent Master said in the Treatise of "The Rending and the Providing" [Al-Fatq wa al-Ratq]: The Scholar, His glory is mighty, was asked about the Name from the Named, so he said: Indeed, the Name from the Named is in the status of the beam from the disk, the sight from the seer, and the speech from the speaker; it almost becomes hidden out of subtlety and concealed out of ambiguity, except that I shall strike a parable for you in that. It was said: Bestow it upon your close followers. He said: Have you seen the fire latent within iron when it emerges from it and what proceeds in its manner? Does it decrease anything from things by its emergence, or is it emerging from other than it? It was said: No. He said: And likewise, the Name emerged from the light of the Essence and did not decrease the Essence in anything, nor is it emerging from other than it, and it left no mark upon it.

[79] And He, His glory is mighty, was asked about the Name: why was it called a throne, and how did He specify it with the status of the Throne while it is the closest of statuses in utterance, after it had been a soul, a veil, and a name? He said: It is not as they illusion, but rather the Throne of Reality sat enthroned from the light of the Essence of Allah,