nothing stands firm before the greatness of the Essence except that which appeared from it without division or partitioning, and that is the spirit of the Name, which is its inward. And when the Name appeared, it was from the light of the light of the Name, so it vanishes, becomes hidden, and disappears, and it does not stand firm before the Eternal Light. And I do not say that this originated light disappears, vanishes, goes away, becomes annihilated, and is completely lost; rather, it is merely hidden from the sights of the created beings just as the planets are hidden upon the rising of the sun, while they remain as they are in their places, but when the sun rises upon them—whose light rises above whatever is below it of the planets—it covers them, so they are neither seen nor witnessed.

And from Abd al-Mumin al-Sufi in the sixth chapter: That the Master Muhammad is the light of the sciences and the teacher of the worlds, and the Primordial is the One shining upon him and is his light, and the Manifest in his likeness, the indicator of Him, and the caller from Him and to Him.

And Jalal al-Din al-Sufi said in the book "The Precedence of the Names" [Taqdim al-Asma']: Whoever does not single out the Essence from the names and attributes, and does not recognize