And let me leave to the reader the interpretation of the saying of our Master: "I am the meaning upon which no name and no likeness falls," then the freedom of certainty in the judgment and the settling in the doctrine.
[235] And from the book "Al-Muhtadar", from a sermon of his, is his saying: "I, my name in the Torah is Bariya, and in the Gospel is Eliya, and in the Psalms (Zabur) is Ariya, and with the Indians is Kankar, and with the Romans is Batrisiya, and with the Persians is Jabtar, and with the Turks is Tabyin, and with the Zanj is Haytar, and with the Abyssinians is Batrik, and with my mother is Haydarah, and with my wet-nurse is Maymun, and with the Arabs is Ali, and with the Armenians is Fariq, and with my father is Zahir. I am the guardian (wali) of the believers... etc."
In the clarification of the explicit declaration of our Master by the mentioning of his name with every nation from these nations, he proves the soundness of our doctrine concerning the manifestation of the Deity among the nations and the peoples in a visible form, and from his saying "I am the guardian (wali) of the believers," we deduce that he is the Lord of the worlds by the evidence of the Almighty's saying in Surah Al Imran: "And Allah is the guardian of the believers."




