God then dispatched the two ravens to show him how to bury him and conceal him in the earth, so he and Adam went until he brought him to stand over the grave, just as the narrative unfolded. How then can the one of deficient understanding say that the blow fell upon the Adversary, while he possesses no means to clarify what he has uttered? Rather, this has an inward dimension (batin) that none can perceive except the possessors of pure intellects and minds, and those whose salvation God has willed."

With the help of God, we shall explain what we have memorized and understood, and what we have heard from the secret of the trusted legacy (sirr al-wadi‘ah); and that is, when the light of the spiritual Reality (nur al-ma‘nawiyyah) flowed within the light of the Name (nur al-ismiyyah), and they both offered the sacrifice, and [Qabil] slew Qabil, may God curse him, slew Habil, His glory is magnificent, and the form remained cast down—which was [the very essence of his own self] ¹ , his inward, dark soul. It is his flaw ('illah) that was created from the disobedience of the believers,