Abel (Hābīl), Seth (Shīth), Joseph (Yūsuf), Joshua (Yūsha‘), Asaph (Āṣif), Simon (Sham‘ūn), and Ali (Upon him I rely, and He is the Lord of the Great Throne, Glorified and Exalted is He).
Second: His Likenesses in the Stations of His Name
These are the fifty-four ranks that serve as the archetypal mirrors of the Name:
Enos (Ānūsh), Kenan (Qaynān), Mahalalel (Mahlā’īl), Yazid (Yāzid), Idris, Methuselah (Mutawshalaḥ), Lamech (Lāmik), Noah (Nūḥ), Shem (Sām), Arpachshad (Arfakhshād), Ya’rub, Hud, Salih, Luqman, Lot (Lūṭ), Abraham (Ibrāhīm), Ishmael (Ismā‘īl), Elias (Ilyās), Qusay, Isaac (Isḥāq), Jethro (Shu‘ayb), Caleb (Kālib), Ezekiel (Ḥarqīl), Samuel (Shāmūyīlā), Saul (Ṭālūt), David (Dāwūd), Job (Ayyūb), Jonah (Yūnus), Isaiah (Ash‘iyā), Elisha (al-Yas‘), al-Khidr, Zechariah (Zakariyyā), John (Yaḥyā), Daniel (Dāniyāl), Alexander (al-Iskandar), Ardashir, Sapur, Lu’ay, Murrah, Kilab, Qusay, Abd Manaf, and Hashim. and Abd al-Muttalib, al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Ali, Muhammad, Ja'far, Musa, Ali, Muhammad, Ali, and al-Hasan al-Askari—and He is Knowing of all things.




