This demonstrates that power (al-Qudrah) is delegated, by the command of the Meaning (al-Ma'na), to His Name, and the Name extends sustenance to His Gate (al-Bab). This power is universal, creative, and uncreated; it is the attribute of action which is active, not passive, and it is that to which the gnostic points. It emanates directly from the Meaning by His own Essence, and beyond this, there is no further objective for the seeker—[and it is] the deeply concealed secret and the Unseen that cannot be comprehended. Thus, when this power manifests from the signpost which is [the believer's companion] 1 , it belongs inherently to the Meaning by His own Essence. The Meaning cannot be pointed to by any human attribute following the manifestation of this action and power; therefore, whosoever places a final goal beyond this, may God [curse him] 2 and disgrace him.
As for the attribute of honor, when the utterance of the Meaning, majestic is his glory, [manifests] 3 from the form of the Name, majestic is his glory, and its exemplar,