Indeed, what is binding upon us regarding them is [gnosis, not ritual worship] 1 , since enactment and ritual worship belong exclusively to the new, speaking station (al-maqam al-natiq al-jadid). Thus, when you verify that the Master of this station is the Master of .the past stations, you are enriched beyond rendering ritual worship [to the seven] 2 names at one and the same time, given that their Meaning is present before you, addressing you in His very Essence.
If you were to worship the seven simultaneously, it would be binding upon you to establish a speaking Meaning (ma‘nan natiqan) for every single name among them so that your claim could be valid, and it would be incumbent upon you to produce textual proof (al-nass) for what you have claimed. [For] 3 when the Commander of the Faithful, His glory is magnificent, was outwardly delivering a sermon from the pulpit of Kufa, describing His own Essence and saying: "I did [this], I crafted [that]"—was Shama‘un (Simon Peter), His glory is magnificent,