and this is a disciplining for us because our masters, transcended their might, used to teach the people of the ranks the discipline and the reports so that they deliver them to us, so we become disciplined by them and we emulate what they said, successor from predecessor, and last from first, until they alternate it between themselves, and it is mandatory to explain this matter with what some of the master scholars, sanctified God their souls, transmitted.
As for the saying of our master when Kumayl asked him about Reality, so he said to him: "It is the attraction of the attractions without a cause?" because He is the Causer of causes and there is no cause for Him, and the attractions here are from the greatest name to whoever is below it of the possessors of the ranks, and they are: the gates, the orphans, the chiefs, the nobles, the specialized ones, the sincere ones, and the tested ones, because they are the attractions for the world and they are the disposers for them by the command of their master, and he is the master Muhammad, transcended his might, who is their origin, their creator, and their bringer into existence by the command of his master, Al-Anza' al-Baṭeen , and all of them are caused, and He, Glory be to Him and Exalted is He,




