and the name is the one, and the gate is the oneness, and the utterance is through the spirituality, and the speech is through the nominality, and the tongue [speaks] through the Gatehood [al-bābiyya] , and the gatherer of all that and its mover is the intellective spirit, through the knowledge of God, my station of Fatherhood (al-ubuwwa) was ennobled and my bond of Brotherhood (al-ukhuwwa) was established sound among the believers , and when my hearing from my master, may God make his return good, was equal, he requested from me the journeying and commanded me to travel with him, so there was no way for me to travel due to the paucity of that which was in my hands of expense, so my master, may God make his return good, commanded the youths to bring me [with] 1 the group in the land of al-Zimam, so I arrived with them [and I was known] 2 among them as Yusuf ibn al-Ajuz al-Raddad al-Halabi [known as al-Nashshabi] 3 so I stayed for the service of the sheikhs when they gathered,
1It does not exist in some manuscripts / And in another manuscript: in the gathering of / And in another manuscript: in.
2In another manuscript: and I returned to be known.
3In another manuscript: al-Nashshabi.