And he is Salman, peace be upon him; he is the Hoopoe (al-Hudhud), and he is the messenger to Sheba on behalf of Solomon—the Name, His glory is magnificent—and he is one of the two ravens. As for his naming as "the Pre-existence of Good Deeds," it means that [his likeness] 1 is as the likeness of a bird that hatches its young in the thickets, called Qidam al-Khayrat; when it cries out, [none answers it] except its own chicks.
As for his statement:
And for the Chamberlain, within [the Gate] 2
Is the permission of the divine Messages.
And for the Gatekeeper, from his Chamberlain,
Is a station of magnificent grandeurs.
The Chamberlain (al-Hajib) is the Greatest Name and the Most Noble Veil, while the Gate (al-Bab) is the station of the Name, the messenger acting by his permission, and the conveyor on his behalf. Thus, when the Name manifests through the Gate that [stood in his place] 3 ,