while the prostration was twice, because the bowing is the obedience of the Veil to the Meaning, and the prostration is the obedience of both the Veil and the Gate to the Meaning—may His glory be exalted. The meaning of the supplication (qunut) after the completion of the bowing is the knower’s indication toward his Creator, and the supplication and entreaty for the liberation of his soul from the darknesses of the temperament which the obedience to the "Opposites" (al-adad) causes him to enter. The esoteric meaning of sitting in the prayer after the first two units an indication of the sitting of the two Ha's (al-Ha’ayn) instead of rising to command after the occultation of the Essential Station, and the surrender of the matter to the Accursed Opposite; and the testimony (tashahhud) within them is a testimony for them of Power, even if they manifested incapacity to the sights of the deniers as a "turning of hearts and sights," as God said: "And We will turn their hearts and their sights just as they did not believe in it the first time, and We will leave them in their transgression, wandering blindly" ¹ .