The Introduction

In the name of God, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful

And by Him is my trust, my provision and the provision of the Gnosis-knowers.

Praise be to God, the High, the Magnificent, the Eternal, the One, the Single, the Absolute, the Meaning, the Ancient, the Everlasting, He transcended above the female companion and the child, and He was mighty above the descriptions and the number, He neither begets nor is born, And there is none co-equal unto Him, the Causer of causes, and the Annihilator of the movements of the firsts, Who what He willed He did, the Creator of creation, and the Manifester of the signs and the powers, and the Sender of the clouds with the rain, the Manifest in His inwardness and the Inward in His manifestation, for His manifestation indicated His lordship, and His inwardness indicated His eternity, and His affirmation indicated His existence, and His existence indicated His oneness, and His oneness is the negation of His attributes,