And the iqāma: is the call of the Mīm to the ‘Ayn. When the Mīm appears through the Sīn, it becomes a Mīm, and the Mīm does not call to itself, but rather calls to its True Creator; for this reason, the doubling has ceased from it as we mentioned.

"The fourth indication" regarding the knowledge of prayer and its divisions: Know, O brother, that the meaning of prayer (al-ṣalāh) in the linguistic sense is: the supplication to God Almighty and the praise of Him. In the legal sense, it carries three meanings, according to their stations and those to whom the performance of it is attributed.

As for the first: its occurrence from God Almighty, and it carries three meanings in relation to the one from whom and upon whom it occurs.

As for His prayer upon His Name: it is the manifestation in the stations of transfiguration (tajallī), such as His station, and that is in the stations we previously mentioned in the section on worship.

And His prayer upon His angels is the projection of His outward likeness (shibhu mithālihi) to the sights during the occultation from the sights of the deniers—