[Ghaybah] within the lineage of the Imamate, so He occulted with His Essence and manifested from the light of the Mim the body through which the Mim used to be manifest while he was in his Nominal station. And our Master Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, the Proof [Al-Hujjah], came from Medina when he was six years old and prayed over him, while Abu Shu'ayb was the commander and the forbidder. And that magnificent body witnessed upon the bier was the body hidden in the light, and it is the Name upon the first form through which it was manifest before the Meaning removed it; thus the observed body upon the washing table was the body of the originated Mim, and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan was an eternal type, and the Mim took charge of himself by himself, so his eternal aspect prayed over his originated aspect. So glory be to the Doer of what He wills. And the Meaning within the lineage of prophecy is silent [Samit] while the Name is speaking [Natiq], and within the lineage of the Imams the Meaning is speaking while the Name is silent. And the Name, in its essential manifestations, was speaking while the Meaning was silent, because the Name, in its essential manifestations, is a prophet, a messenger, and the possessor of a divine law and indication,




