outer veil-station [Al-Hijabiyyah al-Suriyyah]. Thus, he ocularly witnesses Allah—exalted is His mention—through the hidden veils, and beholds Him via His high, spiritual stations, as well as the luminous ones, by way of direct exposure and ocular witnessing [kashfan wa-'ayanan]. And likewise is His manifestation to His high, spiritual devotee through what is above him, by way of exposure and manifestation."

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah al-Jinan said in the "Book of the Clarification of the Lamp" [Kitab Idah al-Misbah]: "And the fifth celestial sphere encompassing the heavens and the earth is the conceptual point—I mean the hidden Essence [Al-Dhat] which all intellects and souls conceptualize, and it is that which neither a Name nor a Gate has comprehended, and none knows what It is except Itself; and the emanationist point is the veil of the Essence—I mean Its light from which the spirit of the Mim issued, and it is that from which the number originates, which is the Master Muhammad who is the first of the numbers and the first of the motions. And this point is not other than the Essence, because there is no difference between the Essence and Its light, and it is that from which the Mim was formed and appeared. It is His gaze,