He remembered [1] the station of the heart [2] and the secret of the breath [3].

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. May Allah bless our master and lord Muhammad, his family, and his companions, and grant them abundant peace. Praise be to Allah for His blessings, and gratitude to Him for what He has granted us—love for this noble Prophet and inspiration. I cannot enumerate praise upon Him; He is as He has praised Himself, for He is more worthy and knowing of what befits the perfection of His Lordship, and more capable and wise in the majesty of His Grandeur. Blessings and peace be upon our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of the Supreme Mystery ¹, the lexicon of the Most Glorious Message ², and upon his family and companions, possessors of everlasting might and most glorious honor. To proceed: When my thought traversed the oceans of Muhammadan perfections, and the world of my secret ³ became immersed in the state of Ahmad's attributes ⁴, it was inspired in my heart to speak of the ocean of prophethood that supplies all the trees of the human creation and all the cosmic worlds, encompassing all their merciful secrets, their wisdoms, and their eternal benefits. This was after I had first discussed the seven divine oceans ⁵ that supply it ⁶ from the overflowing of merciful gifts and flow into it from the treasuries of the secrets of the Omnipotent ⁷. I have derived this noble theme and subtle secret from the meaning of His exalted saying: "And if whatever trees upon the earth were pens and the sea [were ink], replenished thereafter by seven seas, the words of Allah would not be exhausted" (Quran 31:27). And from the saying of al-Busiri ⁸: "He is the sea, and mankind are its illumination." Some of the knowers among the scholars said: Here he likened him to the sea for his greatness, the multitude of his waves' crashing, and his strength. Then the caller of longing—whose arrival cannot be repelled, and the arrival of taste ⁹ that does not conceal its witness—called me, and the state of love—which carries and is not carried, and leads longing souls by the reins of compulsion to Him—impelled me to delineate the form of the eight mentioned oceans and what they contain of hidden secrets, sublime and manifest meanings, subtle holy allusions, and precious divinely-bestowed pure words. After that, I delineated the form of a vast ocean whose waves crash with gifts and secrets, and whose streams flow with the subtleties of gnoses and lights. It is the ocean of Muhammadan prophethood, from which the spirits of the near ones draw the nectar of its drink, all the prophets and messengers scoop from the flood of its billows, and the great saints and righteous ones derive the meanings of its secrets and the purport of its discourse. "Speak of the sea without constraint" ¹⁰; its wonders cannot be counted, its marvels cannot be enumerated, its gifts cannot be exhausted. It encompasses all, but none encompasses it. No gift can exhaust it, nor does supply diminish it. The intellects of renowned scholars, righteous ones, worshippers, pure gnostics, pillars ¹¹, and solitaries ¹² cannot cross it. Though it shares the name with the sea, it differs in supply and provision. "Not equal are the two seas: this is fresh, sweet, pleasant to drink, and this is salty, bitter" (Quran 35:12). When I resolved to depict this example, clothed in the lights of the Possessor of Might and Majesty, filled with the gifts of Muhammadan virtues and the bestowals of goodness and bounty, the pen hesitated and said: This is a sea whose like cannot be grasped, nor is its like seen in the world of illusion and imagination, because it is the sea at whose shore the prophets and messengers stood. It is the one referred to by the saying of some great masters among the eminent men: "We plunged into a sea while the prophets stood at its shore." He meant the Muhammadan luminous sea, for the prophets all derived from him as a part derives from the whole, as al-Busiri—may Allah have mercy on him—said: "And all of them from the Messenger of Allah seek a handful from the sea or a sip from the rain." There is no prophet or saint but follows him and is guided by his abstract light, free from form, on the day of "Be" ¹³, because he—peace and blessings be upon him—is the first trace that appeared of the divine power overflowing with this unveiling upon the Muhammadan community, through the emergence of light in the holy form ¹⁴ that manifests to the molds of forms with the eye of specification, and with it He covered every light that preceded and cut off its supply with His supply, and he is the mentioned Seal ¹⁵. Or you may say regarding the meaning of his saying: "We plunged into a sea," etc. This saint of the Hallajian school ¹⁶, of Mosaic drink ¹⁷, of Jesus-like proximity ¹⁸, expressed "plunging" here as an indication of the removal of the veil, the uncovering of the cover, and a manifestation of the excellence of this community honored by belonging to the Master of the Poles ¹⁹ and the dearest of beloveds, my master the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him. His saying: "the prophets stood at its shore" means they stood with a stance of piety and respect, veneration and magnification, as a legislation for those who follow them among mankind, not out of inability for that station. Rather, they stood at the shore to be followed, for if they had plunged into it and the people plunged after them, the prophets would have been established but most people would have perished. Do you not see the people of watchfulness and witnessing among the saints, whose states are dominated by attraction, ecstasy, rapture, and passion? Because their spiritual souls witnessed what Allah granted them of the eternal secrets and divine gifts, and their unseen unveilings realized what appeared to them through him from the presence of the All-Knowing King. Thus lights connected with lights, secrets with secrets, and spirits with spirits; union was achieved, separation was negated, and there remained no universal or particular subtlety except that his essential Ahmadine secret and his majestic Muhammadan light ²⁰—upon him be the best of prayers and purest peace—traversed it. "And We have not sent you except comprehensively to mankind as a bearer of good tidings and a warner" (Quran 34:28). He—peace and blessings be upon him—is the junction of the two seas: the divine and the human, the Mosaic and the Khidrian ²¹, because he is the eye of the eye ²²; whoever drinks from his supply drinks from the eye of truth without blemish, and whoever scoops from him is annihilated from himself and from his annihilation, leaving no trace or essence. His light—peace and blessings be upon him—is ever-increasing, its supply never cut off, and it remains last as it was first. Therefore it is said: Whoever thinks that Muhammad—peace and blessings be upon him—is dead has indeed been ignorant of his rank—peace be upon him. Or you may say: "We plunged into a sea while the prophets stood at its shore," meaning that all believers, prophets and others, have taken the covenant to believe in him, affirm what he brought, and support his religion, as in His exalted saying: "And [mention] when Allah took the covenant of the prophets" (Quran 3:81), etc. But the prophets stood at his shore to preserve the limits of the laws, because they were commanded to convey to their nations. The scholars and righteous of this community plunged into the sea of Muhammadan law and legal obligations, bearing its branches and roots and knowing the realities of its types and divisions. This is the meaning of his saying: "We plunged into a sea," etc.

Or you say: We traversed a sea, etc. That is, they traversed it with the luminous intellect, the divine unveiling, and the spiritual body, and its Muhammadan support ²³ extends their luminous spirits and spiritual bodies, while the prophets stand on its shore, marveling at what God has given to this Muhammadan community and what He has bestowed upon them of Ahmadian ²⁴ gifts. "That is the bounty of God which He gives to whom He wills, and God is the possessor of great bounty." So I said, my Master, how do you want me? He said: A poor lover ²⁵ among lovers. I see Him with the eye of union ²⁶ in every state, and I witness Him in all beings absolutely. So He made me absent from myself, and I did not know who I was. Does the finite remain with the Eternal? I have drawn this lofty image only to delight my sight in the beauties of its delicate form, to console my heart by contemplating the representation of the sea of His noble generosity, to make it the theater of my intellect, the pasture of my heart's eye, and the object of my gaze by night and day, my constant litany ²⁷ in my coming and going, for spirits are revived by the remembrance of their Beloved, and hearts find rest at the sight of their Desired. From that sea I draw streams at whose sight eyes are bewildered, and in whose gardens the great among the intimate ²⁸ and the elite of the righteous delight. All this is derived from the flood of this great sea and the light of its vast Mustafan ²⁹ secret, to a sea of knowledge inscribed on its shore, whose people sip what exudes from the flood of its gnosis and kindle from the flash of its wisdom's secret. And now I mention those diverse seas of exaltedness and attribute, surpassing in meanings and descriptions, flowing from the presence of the Mighty, the Forgiving Lord, with the subtleties of gifts and secrets, the radiances of gnoses and spiritual gifts and lights, pouring into this prophetic sea encompassing the sciences of realities, the subtleties of spiritual truths, the wisdoms of benefits and remembrances, the streams and rivers drawn from it, the support flowing from it upon the hearts of the people of unveilings and those of insight and discernment, and the springs issuing from it for the elite of the elite and the chiefs of the chosen righteous. "And those who strive in Us, We will surely guide them to Our ways." This is according to the understanding of one limited like me and dull; whoever desires verification, let him strive with all effort to stand on the reality of the matter and attain what he desires, and benefit from the inner knowledge ³⁰ by which his support increases and multiplies, from his heart upon the heart of Abraham, peace be upon him, and among them is one whose heart is upon the heart of David, peace be upon him, to the end of the prophets, peace be upon them. There is no prophet but on the face of the earth there is from this community one whose heart is upon his heart. As for the Ghawth ³¹, he is the Pole of Poles ³², and his heart is upon the heart of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and upon them all. End. "And to your Lord is the final destination." And now I mention these seas which the precedents of destinies have brought forth, and in whose meanings the hearts of the masters of thoughts and ideas have roamed, embroidered with blessings upon the Chosen Prophet, and adorned with the subtleties of subtleties and the gifts of remembrances, for they are the core of the poem in this book, the essence of the intent, the pivot, the return and the refuge. So I say, and with God is success, and from Him I seek aid and guidance to the clearest path and most beneficial way, beginning with the Sea of Love, which is the foundation of faith and affirmation, the essence of righteousness and right guidance for the people of sainthood and verification. "Your face is Paradise, and it is the utmost of my desire; Your face's beauty encompasses me, so wherever I turn, I see You. You appear in all manifestations, manifesting with Your beautiful attributes; to God belongs the highest attribute." O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has seated its people on the couches of blessedness and felicity, and filled their hearts with the lights of love in the world of the unseen and the witnessed. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has seated its people in the station of particularity and election, and raised their rank in the station of proximity and chosenness. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has honored its people with pure certainty and servitude, and made them know the truth of Lordship and the might of Eternity. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has purified its people from the filth of others and evil deeds, and chosen them for Himself, and exalted them above imperfections and human follies. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has deposited in the hearts of its people His guarded secret and made them a treasury for His divine gifts and hidden knowledge, and addressed its people, honoring them, with His words: "O My servants, no fear shall be on you this day, nor shall you grieve, those who believed in Our signs and were Muslims. Enter Paradise, you and your spouses, rejoicing." So bless him, O God, and his family, a blessing by which You improve our thoughts, relieve us of sorrows, and make us witness the unveilings of Your unseen secrets and the subtleties of Your stored knowledge, O He whose command is between the Kaf and the Nun ³³, O He who says to a thing "Be!" and it is, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has made the hearts of its people prepared to receive His gnosis, and cast into them the lights of His proximity and adorned them with the affections of His love. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has adorned its brides with the ornament of contemplation in the eyes of the people of His service, and adorned them with the jewels of tawhid ³⁴ to make them know the brilliant lights of His power and the secrets of His wisdom. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has favored its people with the gifts of His gnoses and the witnessing of His grace, and singled them out with the subtleties of gifts and made them the companions of His presence. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has manifested on the faces of its people the flashes of attraction and the radiance of His splendor, and clothed them in the garments of lights shining from what has settled in their hearts of the secrets of His intimacy and the majesty of His awe. O God, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of Love, by which God has manifested its beauty on the faces of the gnostics, the saints, and the sincere, so it appeared.

The secret of their inner being is manifest in their outer being, and that becomes clear to all believers. Section: O Allah, bless him and his family, the people of firmness and establishment, and his Companions, the people of witnessing and designation, with a blessing that makes us, through it, among the people of righteousness and religion, and illuminates our innermost beings with the lights of sincerity and certainty, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of love, whose people God has made kneeling on the carpet of servitude in the station of majesty, intimacy, and boldness, prostrating on the carpet of sanctity in the station of awe and beauty, and they never cease seeking increase in the unveiling of the Essence through nearness and union, and abiding with the Truth without veil, reproach, or separation. ³⁵ O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of love, whose tongues God has made moist with constant remembrance of Him, their hearts delighted with His praise and gratitude, the birds of their spirits warbling from the depths of their hearts with the words of God and glorification, the forms of their bodies ascending thereby in the ranks of intimacy and solitude; they are channels of His signs and proofs, receptacles of His holy lights and gnosis; He tested their hearts for piety, so their emblem was the Qur'an, their garment faith; He poured upon them the gifts of His bounty and beneficence, and sent down upon them the clouds of His grace and favor. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of love, whose winds blow upon the hearts of lovers, purifying them from the stains of opposition and all kinds of turbidity, clarifying them to receive lordly influxes and righteous deeds, carrying to them the downpour of knowledge from the ocean of attributes, raining upon their earth so that it sprouts the flowers ³⁶ of holy secrets, the rose of kingdomly gifts, the jasmine of proximity, the light of divine wisdoms, the basils of bestowed gnoses, and the zephyrs of their unseen fragrances. Then at that point, they become prepared for the rising suns of the Essence, and witness the lights of theophanies and the secrets of receptions, whereby the lover increases in longing and passion, love, affirmation, and faith. So the tongue of his state chants: When the One I love manifested in generosity, He made Himself known to me until I was certain that I And He showed me that majestic presence, I see Him with my eye openly, not by imagination. O every state I contemplate, and I have never ceased Upon the Mount of my heart, where I was spoken to. And He is not, in my union, connected, nor Separated from me—far be it from Him to be either. And what is the worth of one like me to encompass His measure? And where is the dust compared to the height of the full moon? Indeed, I witness Him in the purity of my secret, and I behold A beauty whose glory is exalted beyond division, Just as the full moon sees its face In the clarity of a pool while it is in the horizon of the sky. And He—glory be to Him—has sworn in His saying, exalted: "By the scatterers scattering" [51:1] By the tempests of the unveiling of His majesty and the disclosers of the lights of His grandeur, which are the winds of love that scatter the secrets of the gnostics in the expanse of pre-eternity ³⁷ and everlastingness, until no trace remains of their existence from the inner consciousness of the manifestation of Self-Subsistence in the heaven of Ipseity, due to the predominance of pre-eternity over contingency, and by the fragrances of His beauty, which bring the breeze of union to the hearts of lovers, and the sweet scent of the zephyrs of nearness splits the spirits of the lovers, and carries the groans of the yearning ones to the gardens of the Kingdom, and perfumes them with the fragrance of the Dominion. And indeed I seek guidance from the winds for your breeze When they come from your land with blowing, And I ask them to carry greetings to you, And if one day they deliver, then I respond. Then He—glory be to Him—also swore by the clouds of the shades of His eternal care, which carry the downpour of knowledge from the ocean of attributes, raining upon the earth of the hearts of gnostics, causing to sprout the flowers of love, the rose of intimacy, the jasmine of affection, the light of wisdom, and the basils of divine sciences. What a coolness of those shades! What a breeze of that north wind! What beauty of that beauty! And it is said concerning it: "By the scatterers scattering" [51:1] That is, the Truth—glory be to Him—swore that by the winds of the breaths of those yearning for His beauty, which ascend to the Kingdom and spread the fragrance of the gusts of love in the gardens of the Dominion, so that by their breeze the inhabitants of the highest assembly and the lower realms are perfumed. "And the burden-bearers" [51:2] The clouds of the spirits of the gnostics, which carry the burdens of the waters of the sciences of the unseen from the ocean of attributes, raining upon the deserts of breasts, causing to sprout therein ³⁸ the secrets of realities and the fruits of subtleties. "And the runners with ease" [51:3] The ships of the secrets of the lordly ones, which run in the seas of the pre-eternal Essence, driven by the north wind of care, and guarded from annihilation by the honor of sufficiency, carrying the secrets of sainthood and delivering them to the hearts of the people of openings and guidance. "And the distributors by command" [51:4] They are the intellects of those firmly established in the station of truthfulness and uprightness, which distribute the matters of inspiration in the places of servitude for the order of the path and the law. And God swore by these wonders, due to what they contain of subtle marvels and indications of His attributes, Essence, love of His saints, and suppression of His enemies. Indeed, the promises of His union and the unveiling of His beauty are true for His sincere ones, and the hour of nearness and proximity is for those who are in harmony with it. There are the days of mutual connection, and there are the times of unveiling and witnessing forever. All of that arises from love, which is the source of gusts, nearness, proximity, purity, ascents, unveilings, receptions, inspirations, gifts, secrets, reinforcements, risings, lights, theophanies, gnoses, gifts, and openings. So bless him, O Allah, and his family adorned with the noblest perfections, and his Companions who ascended through his love to the highest stations and the loftiest ranks, with a blessing by which You gather for us sincerity of certainty and gifts of miracles, and make us thereby among those upon whom You have turned Your face and whom You have singled out for Your pleasure ³⁹ in all states, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the rising place of the sun of prophetic realities, the source of the gleaming secrets of the Chosen One, and the remembrance of the luminous divine love, which God has made a means for the elite of His elect and saints, and a station of nearness for His pious ones.

And recognition of Him, and a degree of attainment for His beloved and noble ones, and a lamp of guidance for His deputies and successors, And a crown of care for His great and eminent ones, and a sea of knowledge for His advisors and scholars, and a sword of protection For His weak and strong ones, and a light of insight for His discerning and intelligent ones, and a station of honor for His messengers And prophets, and a shield of protection for the supporters of His religion and His helpers, and a tongue of eloquence for His wise and eloquent ones, And a cup of affection for His merciful and forbearing ones, and a pulpit of sovereignty for His preachers and orators, and a house of migration For His leaders and nobles, and a garden of repose for His righteous and close ones, and a rain of mercy for the pillars of His mosques And their attendees, and a direction of prayer (Qiblah) for those in His earth and heaven, and a fortress of security for those who seek intercession through His attributes And names, and a proof of argument for His truthful ones and martyrs, and a hand of intercession for the people of His praise and commendation. (18) And a key of grace for the doors of His generosity and the treasures of His giving. So it is a sweet wine, a lofty station, A precious jewel, and a bond of affection and closeness. A seed from it fell into the very core of the hearts of the people of longing And love, and a breeze from the breezes of the Truth (al-Haqq), placed in the hearts of the people of intention and sincerity, removing What was of impurities, and revealing what was hidden of secrets. A tree grows in the heart, And its branches intertwine with all the limbs. When the branch of the eye trembles, it weeps from the sea Of the majesty of glory (al-Jalal); when the branch of the tongue trembles, it speaks in all languages; when the branch of The hand trembles, it manifests wonders in acts of seizing; when the branch of the foot trembles, the earth is folded up for it From all directions; when the branch of the head trembles, the mind disappears from all events. Among Its signs are turning towards God and turning away from other than Him, occupying oneself with obedience, abandoning Disobedience, expansion of the breast with lights, abundance of secrets, care for the abode of permanence, manifestation Of the inner self from other-than-Him (al-aghyar), and reliance upon the One, the Subduer (al-Wahid al-Qahhar). They witnessed Him when He manifested, and they vanished, and punishment became sweet for the lover in Him. They drank a draught and became intoxicated—would that I knew, O companion, what that drink is. They wrote a story of complaint with tears, and the answer came to them from the Beloved. (19) They embarked upon the sea of His love, then journeyed, and He called them to union with Him, so they responded. Thus, with their bodies among creation, they were present in their love for Him, then they vanished. And they are in garments; nothing remains of them except a trace that the clothes enclose. So follow their traces and seek refuge in their sanctuary; success, desires, and right guidance will come to you. And it is the vessel that conveys to the Muhammadan sea, the encompassing, the greatest. And the Mustafawi (Chosen One's) station, the sublime, the most magnificent; the pure, clear, most upright religion; the abundant, overflowing, most magnificent succor; The dazzling, perfect, most complete secret; and it is the sea of your Beloved, our master Muhammad, May God bless him and grant him peace, and honor and generosity. Whoever drinks from its watering-places, his life endures, And his breaths are placed in the regions of the kingdom and the dominion, and his essence disappears in the beauty of the Truth (al-Haqq), and his attributes and perfections Are characterized by the Rahmanic (Merciful) character, because it is the sweet, pure, wholesome drinking-place, and the wine By whose breeze the great and the eminent sway. ❖ Blessed are they, for they have attained union with their Beloved ❖ And enjoyed His nearness and connection. ❖ Their passion is never-ending, nor their ardor, ❖ And likewise the love of every heart and devotee. (20) ❖ They humbled themselves for the glory of their Beloved ❖ And deemed trivial ❖ what they endured in love of its terrors. ❖ And they were occupied with Him—and glad tidings to one ❖ whose Beloved has become among his occupations. A sea whose water is sweeter than honey, whiter than milk, more delicious than honeycomb and sugar, more fragrant than Ambergris and the most pungent musk, more aromatic than clove, jasmine, and red rose. Scarcely does one who smells it remain in his state, or turn to other than his Master in his movements, stillness, And all his states. It is the resource of the elite and the common, and the meeting-place of the two seas of the Sharia and the Reality (Haqiqa) For the people of special distinction and the leading guides. The near and the far draw from it, The successful and the happy drink from it, the shaykh and the disciple derive from it, The intelligent and the dull benefit from its blessing, and the inspired and rightly-guided swim in its Muhammadan flood. By it the balance of bodies is made straight, by it the law of religions is established, By it the affair of Islam is set right, and by love for it the accidents of vain fancies are removed. The transparency of the cosmos, of Kawthar-like color, of divine (Lahuti) protection; the child and the adult are blessed by drinking it, The scholar and the student strive to acquire its virtue, and the silent and the speaker fall short of grasping its reality, The knower (arif) and the discerning seek the overflow of its abundance. Its benefits are easy of access, (21) and its watering-places Are wide of outlets, its stations are pleasant of covenants, and its words are truthful of promises. It was created from the light of majesty (al-Jalala) and exaltation, and nurtured in the cradles of sovereignty and precedence. By it the rule of the inner and outer was linked, and the affair of the first and last was set right. From it are extracted treasures of blessings and pearls of good things, and robes of purity and closeness, And subtleties of requital and recompense. Its vessels are safe from the grasp of misery and abandonment, Its sails are preserved from the calamities of opposition and disobedience, And its shores are surrounded by the light of truth and faith. Whoever rides its Muhammadan ship is saved and secure, And whoever follows its Ahmadi path profits and gains. So may God bless him and his family with a blessing by which we become among those renowned for his noble praise and know, And fortified by his impregnable fortress from all terrors and afflictions and protected, And complete his life with the two words of the testimony and seal it, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. ❖ The Messenger of God is truly the secret of the cosmos ❖ And the Beloved of God, and He is His intimate friend. ❖ The Imam of the prophets, the Beloved of my Lord, ❖ And their master, and their all-encompassing shade. ❖ By him they sought refuge, so he became the pole of a gathering; ❖ By him are Moses, Jesus, and the Intimate Friend (al-Khalil, Abraham). (22) ❖ And all the messengers are of high rank, ❖ But there is no way to likeness (with him). ❖ Noble of lineage, chosen of origins, ❖ Ancient in glory; every grandfather bestows. ❖ Trustworthy, glorious, pious, compassionate, ❖ Great in rank, complete, majestic. ❖ A prophet, approved, exalted, high, ❖ The interlocutor of God (Kalim Allah, Moses) and the chosen messenger. ❖ And the sea of love, Ya Sin, a mountain of knowledge; ❖ To him belong the highest station and ancient glory. ❖ To him belong beneficence and the best reward entirely, ❖ And the expanse of creation and the great decree. ❖ And my Lord, there is no equal to Ahmad; ❖ It is too great that there should be a match for him. ❖ The virtues of Ahmad have dazzled, so he has become ❖ Dull-witted whoever shortens or prolongs (in describing him). ❖ And God has praised him through revelation, ❖ And does any saying remain alongside the Quran? ❖ So Ahmad is the best of all God's creation, ❖ And by whose guidance the path has become clear. ❖ O pole of existence, and he to whom ❖ Gabriel came for victory in battles. ❖ You were created for noble deeds and high stations, ❖ Surpassing the prophets, and they are (but) peers. ❖ For you are the most majestic envoy who came to us ❖ With the light of revelation, so intellects were guided. (23) ❖ Upon you, from the Dominant (al-Muhaymin), Possessor of Majesty, ❖ Be peace that does not change nor cease. ❖ It encompasses the Family, along with noble Companions, ❖ And remains as long as the seasons alternate. And this is the description of the Sea of Love. (24)

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses ⁴⁰, extending from the point of the secret of "In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" ⁴¹, and the treasure of secrets and subtle graces ⁴², praised in the Qur'an by Your words: "And indeed, you are of a great moral character" ⁴³. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the declaration of divine oneness ⁴⁴: "And your God is one God; there is no deity except Him, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" ⁴⁵, and the fountain of openings ⁴⁶ and spiritual cognitions ⁴⁷, addressed by Your words: "There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer; [he is] concerned over you and to the believers is kind and merciful" ⁴⁸. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the shining rays of majesty and exaltation, and the light of the insight of the masters of witnessing and unveilings ⁴⁹, honored by Your words: "Ya Sin. By the wise Qur'an. Indeed you are from among the messengers, on a straight path. [This is] a revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful" ⁵⁰. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of Your great, high, and most exalted name, the fortress of security for the one who believes and fears, whose rank is alluded to in Your words: "Ta Ha. We have not sent down to you the Qur'an that you be distressed, but only as a reminder for those who fear [Allah] - a revelation from He who created the earth and the highest heavens, the Most Gracious, [who] established Himself above the Throne. To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth and what is between them and what is under the soil. And if you speak aloud - then indeed, He knows the secret and what is [even] more hidden. Allah - there is no deity except Him. To Him belong the best names" ⁵¹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the unseen of unseens ⁵² and the holy, transcendent, and protected essence, and the Kaaba ⁵³ of the visitor and the circumambulator, whose mention is alluded to in Your words: "Say, 'O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, [from Him] to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death.' So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him that you may be guided" ⁵⁴. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the majesty of lordship and exaltation, and the mihrab ⁵⁵ of the devout worshiper and the one in retreat, indicated by Your words: "Ha Mim. 'Ayn Sin Qaf. Thus has revealed to you, and to those before you, Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great" ⁵⁶. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the most holy self-disclosure ⁵⁷ and the manifestations of unveilings and determination ⁵⁸, and the blessing of the ancient and the new ⁵⁹, indicated by Your words: "Did We not expand for you your breast? To warn thereby and to remind the believers" ⁶⁰. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, extending from the light of the innermost of the mercy of the Essence ⁶¹ and the gifts of grace, and the model of the saint ⁶², the pious, and the gnostic ⁶³, supported by Your words: "Alif Lam Mim. Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. He has sent down upon you the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed the Torah and the Gospel before, as guidance for the people, and He revealed the Criterion" ⁶⁴. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the lamp of guidance and gnosis, and his companions, the mines of generosity and beneficence, with a blessing by which You clothe us in the garments of contentment and pleasure, and by which You settle us in the highest paradises and the chambers of gardens, by Your favor and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, the greatest, and the master of messengers and prophets, the most noble beloved. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, the most magnificent, and the full moon of beautiful perfections and the complete, most perfect light. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, the vast, and the cloud of pouring generosity and the abundant, all-encompassing gift. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, the greatest, and the banner of guidance and sainthood, the most eminent and renowned. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, abundant in generosity and bounty, soft in sides and sympathies, clear in landmarks and guidance. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, great in rank and station, and the desire of the praiser and describer, praised in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Criterion. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, whose generosity and bounty have no shore, and the rain cloud of mercies and affections, from whose beautiful face and witnessing no one is independent. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, whose gifts are limitless, and the mirror of witnessing for the observers and unveilers, whose virtues cannot be counted nor his merits exhausted. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses, encompassing the secrets of prophethood and messengership, and the flashes of the lightning of love that snatches away, abundant in shining rays and gleams. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the rising stars, and his companions, the comprehensive mothers ⁶⁵, with a blessing by which You suffice us against the harm of obstacles and preventions, and by which You grant us the greatest benefits and advantages, and send down upon us the downpours of Your mercy and the clouds of the rains of Your generosity, by Your favor and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of gifts and gnoses ⁶⁶, abundant in benefits and sciences, the breeze of lordly fragrances ⁶⁷, the fragrant rose of love, the jasmine of the carpet of might and the known most holy station, the clove of the presences of nearness and purity and the solitary hidden secret ⁶⁸, the saffron of avoiding prohibitions and fulfilling the lordly commanded order, the wild rose of bestowed wisdoms and unseen openings and understood divine knowledge ⁶⁹, the spring flower of sacred hadiths and the inscribed luminous book, the blossom of the gardens of dominion and sovereignty and the marked treasuries of omnipotence, the lavender of the indication: "Have you not seen that Allah, there is no god but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting" ⁷⁰, and the basil of divine opening and the inscribed secret, the citronella grass of the life of the passionate lover and the annihilated nonexistent yearner, the violet of sincerity and truthfulness supported and protected, the ear of wheat of merciful tastes and the sealed drink of truth, the narcissus of divine proximity and apportioned gnostic aid, the flood of the generosity of blessings and the cloud of merciful good inscribed, the apple of the jewels of Quranic secrets and the pearls of its arranged necklace, the cypress of the holy presences interpreted by His saying: "And be patient for the judgment of your Lord, for indeed you are before Our eyes, and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord when you arise. And in the night, exalt Him and at the setting of the stars" ⁷¹, the myrtle of the breaths of divine gifts and bestowed subtleties and treasures of sciences, the lily of acts of obedience and acts of devotion that removes from him who inhales it afflictions, sorrows, and worries, the two good things of specialness and chosenness, whose worth is magnified on the carpet of holiness and the presences of the One, the Self-Subsisting, the light of the secrets of prophethood and messengerhood stamped with the stamp of the sealed light, the eye of the greatest contentment and abundant pleasure, and the Prophet of Allah distinguished by the great intercession in the Praiseworthy Station and the great witnessing place. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, possessors of sovereignty and honor, and his companions, people of glory and exaltation, a blessing by which You guide us with Your right guidance, and make it for us a means to the abode of generosity and the paradises of bliss, by Your favor and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, possessor of great character, lofty rank, and magnificent status, the chosen one addressed by Your saying: "Ya Sin. By the Wise Quran, indeed you are among the messengers, on a straight path, the revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful" ⁷², meaning: O secret of the high, holy, and majestic Essence described with veneration and glorification, O revelation of inspirations not recited on the tablets of writing and teaching, the heart of the Quran recited from Allah upon a wisdom of Oneness, "Indeed you are among the messengers" from that holy, luminous, glorified, solitary, and eternal presence to this created, interwoven, human, servile, spiritual witnessing place, "on a straight path" and a clear, upright way, a lofty, noble station, pure, sincere love, eternal, ancient glory, established, magnificent honor, and vast, great dignity, "the revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful" ⁷³, and He is the One who is not attained except in this luminous Muhammadan temple, and is not found except in this luminous Ahmadine body, for when He, exalted, showed mercy through him to the higher and lower worlds, the distant and the near, He wished to manifest to them His friendship and chosenness, and to make them know His love and preference, and to proclaim to them the greatness of his high rank and station, and to alert them to the glory of his majesty and the perfection of his sovereignty, He sent him from among themselves, chose him from themselves, drew his form on their parchment, ran the waters of his Ahmadine aid in their planting, placed his Mustafan breeze in their assemblies and places of intimacy, and adorned through them the jewels of their souls and the worlds of their senses, and gave them glad tidings with His saying: "There has certainly come to you a messenger from among yourselves" ⁷⁴, meaning: He guided them to him through His care for them and His favor upon them, "grievous to him is what you suffer" ⁷⁵ because he is the bearer for you and the agent in you and for you, so there is no existence for you from absolute existence except through the existence of his essence, "to the believers" who believed in him, "kind and merciful" ⁷⁶ because he is their very essence. If they turn away and their minds do not accept the vision of Your Oneness in their enemies, and the Muhammadan jewel in the necklaces of their necks, "Say, 'Sufficient for me is Allah'" ⁷⁷ since divinity is all-encompassing, "so wherever you turn, there is the face of Allah" ⁷⁸. So I witness that they fled from His right hand to His left, and both hands of my Lord are right. And he, peace and blessings be upon him, was a mercy to the entire world, its believer and disbeliever, its acknowledger and denier. Allah showed mercy through him to the distant and the near, benefited through him the seeker and the captive, and freed through him the obedient and the sinner. And his virtue is over all angels, humans, and jinn. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the eminent leaders, and his companions, obedient to You in secret and public, a blessing by which You realize us with the realities of truth and faith, and illuminate our insights with the lights of witnessing and vision, and gather us with those upon whom You have bestowed favor in the enclosures of holiness and the paradises of gardens, by Your favor and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. Muhammad, possessor of the upright religion and great dignity, refuge of the fearful and anxious, first of the prophets in virtue and last of them in sending, best of intercessors, seal of the messengers, and best of those who surpassed the angels of heaven and who walked on earth barefoot and shod, pure of heart from deceit and filth, purified of chest from deviation and error, his Book, its verses are perfected and through his law all religions and sects are abrogated, and how many doubts he removed with the edge of the sword from the religion of Him who is far above likeness and similitude, how noble the character of a prophet adorned with character, with beauty encompassed, with cheerfulness complete, he meets delegations with a smiling, cheerful face, abundant modesty like the flower of a lush garden, no one who sought his lofty station in a matter but he gave him what surpassed his hope, the moon saw his face radiant and he was born generous, the sea of his hands guides the clearest paths, convey from the sweet, cool mouth what quenches thirst from the honey of honey and from honey, if he said "Stop" and the light of his countenance appeared, the moon would not move or the sun would not cease, O best of those by whom Allah honored existence and singled him out with great remembrance in pre-eternity, be my protector when the flame of blaze ignites and people are in fear from the length of the Day of Standing, and intercede, out of compassion, in the excellence of judgment when calamity becomes general and the means of people are few, where no father avails nor child, nor any intercessor except the Chosen One intercedes for me, I extend the hand of my poverty seeking aid from him upon whose intercession I rely, accept my supplication and expiate through my praise what I have neglected in the order of the days of early youth, I have attained a description that description falls short of, and how much I have shown affection and emphasis without substitution, and I have attained what no one in heaven has attained besides You, from them in detail and in sum, upon you be the purest blessing and peace from Allah, the Dominant, in the mornings and the origin. And this is the description of the ocean of gifts and gnoses.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences ⁷⁹, whom the Tablet ⁸⁰ cannot contain the mention of his noble qualities, nor the Pen ⁸¹ the recording of his virtues. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the Throne ⁸² cannot bear the burden of his trust, nor the Footstool ⁸³ the might of his guardianship. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the spiritual intellect ⁸⁴ cannot fathom the essence of his realities, nor the transcendent light ⁸⁵ the subtleties of his intricacies. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the cosmos cannot contain the realities of his peripheries and extremities, nor the embroidered mantle ⁸⁶ encompass the meanings and attributes of him. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose realities have diversified, and whose subtleties have eluded the insights of those possessed of understanding. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose dazzling signs have dazzled intellects, and whose miraculous proofs have silenced the greatest of scholars ⁸⁷. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose luminosity has unveiled the treasuries of the unseen, and whose spirituality has taken possession of the innermost secrets of hearts. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, from whose knowledge the masters of spiritual states ⁸⁸ and tastes ⁸⁹ have drawn, and whose noble gifts have covered the reaches of the kingdom ⁹⁰, the dominion ⁹¹, and the seven heavens ⁹². O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose aspiration has pierced the veils of density, and whose noble qualities have delighted the interpreters of scriptures. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose fragrant breezes have perfumed the worlds, and with the sweetness of his scent the Garden of Divine Pleasure ⁹³ and Good Pleasure ⁹⁴ has become fragrant. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose unveilings have protected thoughts from the disease of doubts and illusions, and whose wisdoms have filled the inner beings with the secret of revelation and inspiration. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, from whose branches the issues of legal rulings have derived, and the most eminent scholars ⁹⁵ have fallen short of grasping his realities. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, through whom Allah revived the landmarks of religion and the rites of Islam, and by whom the people of Najd ⁹⁶, Tihamah ⁹⁷, and the Sacred House ⁹⁸ boast. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, in whose flood the intellects of the elite and the common have swum, and the prophets and messengers, peace be upon them, have testified to the perfection of his care. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the springs of generosity and honor, and his Companions, the mines of majesty and veneration, a blessing by which You improve our outcomes in the beginning and the end, and by which You protect us from the evil of temporal calamities and the onslaught of nights and days, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, who is the first light that appeared in pre-eternity ⁹⁹, and the most excellent existent in whom realities ascended and the sciences of Adam descended. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, who is the link between contingency and pre-eternity ¹⁰⁰, and the secret of creation, whether later or earlier. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, in whose eye of reality the suns of the masters of spiritual states and ecstasies ¹⁰¹ have set, and in the branches of his path the intellects of the monks of the hermitages of light and mosques have been bewildered. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, in whose assembly his vicegerents ¹⁰² and the manifestations of his determinations have met, and at the hearing of his mention the nightingales of his lovers have stirred, and upon him the lights of his self-disclosures ¹⁰³ have shone. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose suns of understanding have been eclipsed in the brilliance of his signs, and the companions of the Divine Presence ¹⁰⁴ have delighted in his noble gifts and the secrets of his miracles. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, before whose generous right hand the stars have become small, and the delegations have drunk from the purest of his drink and the clear spring. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, who has filled the identities of consciences with the flood of his bestowal, and renewed faith in the hearts of believers with the jewels of his hadiths ¹⁰⁵ and purified their characters. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the seas of the world cannot contain the agitation of his waves, and the people of the highest station ¹⁰⁶ are the clouds of his abundant rain. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the sea of the restrained wave ¹⁰⁷ cannot contain the materials of his premises and conclusions, nor the known station ¹⁰⁸ the beauty of his splendor and joy. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the Frequented House ¹⁰⁹ cannot contain the paths of his passes, nor the Unfurled Scroll ¹¹⁰ the enumeration of his worlds and multitudes. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the Inflamed Sea ¹¹¹ cannot contain the benefits of his words, nor the Inscribed Book ¹¹² the counting of his virtues and the beauties of his attributes.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences ¹¹³, whom the elevated ceiling cannot contain the loftiness of his rank and the highness of his station, nor the veiled curtain the majesty of his greatness and the secrets of his miracles. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the encompassing ocean cannot contain a single drop of his drops, nor the station of Qaba Qawsayn ¹¹⁴ or nearer a single sprinkling of the abundance of his expressions. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, who perfumed the assemblies of the cherubim ¹¹⁵ and the saints with the fragrant breezes of his breaths, and filled the desired scene with the lights of his praises, glorifications, and the lights of his exaltations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom the sea of this world cannot contain the reward of his merit and good deeds, nor the sea of the Hereafter the abundance of his intercession and the universality of his mercies. So bless him, O Allah, and his family with a blessing befitting his noble station and high degrees, by which we may be fortified against the vicissitudes of time and its calamities, and by which we may be among those who are protected by his blessing in their movements and stillness, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, by whose watering the plants flourished, and by hearing whose speech hearts and souls became pure. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, from the spring of whose tongue gushed forth the springs of wisdom and the inscriptions of scrolls, and by the subtleties of his allusions the darknesses of innovation and misfortune were dispelled. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, before whose pearls of words the moons and suns were put to shame, and necks and heads bowed in awe of his majesty. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, for whose answered supplications the doors of bounty and generosity were opened, and all Arabs and non-Arabs submitted to his obedience. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, from whose gifts the tables of grace and blessings overflowed, and by whose blessing the adversities of evils and calamities were repelled. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, by whose remaining ablution water the trees became green, and the houris ¹¹⁶ and youths adorned themselves with the pearls of his radiant beauty. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, by whose clear lamp all existences were illuminated, and by following his sunna ¹¹⁷ and treading his straight path all creatures attained felicity. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, on whose prophetic shore the trees of the lovers were planted, and by the blessing of his chosen secret the states of the believers were rectified. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, in the depths of whose meanings the greatest saints drowned, and from the light of whose gnoses the elite of the intelligent borrowed. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, to whose watering-place the generous of the elect thronged, and to the rope of whose love the leaders of the pious clung. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose sublime and lofty perfections are endless, and whose scientific and practical gifts are not confined. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whom intellects cannot encompass in his celestial wonders, nor do the greatest scholars aspire to reach his noble masterly rank. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, whose chosen virtues the tongues of the eloquent cannot encompass, nor do the praises of the rhetoricians suffice for his prophetic characteristics. So bless him, O Allah, and his family with a blessing by which You may bring us to the sweet and delicious springs of his secrets, and clothe us with the pure and pleasing garments of his love, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. * Ahmad ¹¹⁸ the Chosen, the Bringer of Glad Tidings, the Warner * The best of the messengers truly and of the people of the earth * The chosen one of Allah from the core of Quraysh ¹¹⁹ * The sanctuary of virtue, the Kaaba ¹²⁰ of generosity, the ocean of knowledge * The miracle of speech, possessing a wondrous eloquence * Broad of chest, abundant in cheerfulness, easy of character * May Allah reward the Seal of the Messengers on our behalf * O Messenger of Allah, I am poor * O Messenger of Allah, if You do not succor me * You are my treasure, my excuse, my refuge * And my intercessor on the Day of Resurrection at the Gathering * O vast in giving, O perfect in virtue * From me to You a greeting and a blessing * And upon You be peace, O noblest of creation, from Allah at dawn and evening * As long as a warbling dove sings in the bridal chambers of the hands * And a driver urges in the Hijaz ¹²¹ and calls out * The manifest, the pure, the master of the elect * Collectively, and the best of the inhabitants of heaven * The most generous of Arabs, the most eloquent of the eloquent * Of knowledge, the pillar of the chaste and the rich * And meanings too sublime to be enumerated * Of character, spacious of courtyard, abundant in giving * And the intercessor of mankind, the best of recompense * So succor me, O Helper of the poor * For who else, do you see, would be my refuge? * And my support, my mainstay, and my hope * So be for me, O most generous of intercessors * And O abundant in call and giving * Every day at its morning and evening * And when a dove sings in a luxuriant garden * O caller of Allah, neighbors of the valley O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, submerged in the jewels of tawhid ¹²² and the sciences of the Quran, and the Book of Revelation inscribed with the lights of guidance and the radiances of gnosis. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, submerged in the gifts of gnoses and the realities of faith, and the Book of Revelation inscribed with the brilliance of ocular unveilings and the evidences of certainty.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of sciences ¹²³, filled with the subtleties of subtleties ¹²⁴ and the delicate meanings of beauty, and the inscribed book of revelation ¹²⁵ with the wonders of wonders and the inventions of craftsmanship and perfection. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, filled with the fragrant breezes of opening ¹²⁶, acceptance, contentment, and good pleasure, and the inscribed book of revelation with the precious of precious things and the clear verses of proof and evidence. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, filled with the symbols of bestowed allusions ¹²⁷ and the delicate understandings and clarifications, (50) and the inscribed book of revelation with the gifts of the lordly secret and the treasures of grace and favor. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, filled with the secrets of the openings of the surahs ¹²⁸ and the verses of great worth and status, and the inscribed book of revelation with the subtleties of the sacred hadiths ¹²⁹ and the secrets of proximity and nearness. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the noble leaders, and his companions, the brave lions, with a blessing by which You realize us with the realities of faith, and purify us with the purest offering, and make us thereby among the people of witnessing and direct vision, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of sciences, filled with the subtleties of the holy secrets, and the inscribed book of revelation with the lights of the eternal openings ¹³⁰, and the sultan of the kingdom, supported and victorious, by whose luminous and blessed heart Allah swore in His saying: "By the Mount, and a Book inscribed, in a parchment unrolled" ¹³¹. (51) According to what some of the people of gnostic allusions ¹³² and eternal gifts have conveyed, saying: "By the Mount" means the heart of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, which is the locus of manifestation, light, obedience, and piety; "and a Book inscribed" means the symbols of what was revealed to him; "in a parchment unrolled" means the secrets of Allah engraved with the lights of His revelation and inspiration in his manifest Muhammadan heart, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the wonders of his bestowed esoteric sciences ¹³³ poured upon the inward of his Ahmadine secret ¹³⁴. May Allah bless us through him, and magnify, exalt, honor, and ennoble him, and call his noble heart a "Mount" for its greatness and steadfastness in the veils of the assaults of divine might, and because the lights of lordly manifestations never cease from it. And the inhabited house ¹³⁵ is the Muhammadan essence and what it is adorned with of outward and inward perfections and noble essential qualities. He, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was a house inhabited by the secrets of election and proximity, and an ocean filled with what his Lord specially gave him of perfect chosenness and love, overflowing, and a king supported by the lights of divine care, crowned and delighted. So he is the house that the Truth inhabited with the light (52) of esoteric knowledge ¹³⁶, wisdom, gnosis, witnessing, longing, ecstasy, state, unveiling, and spiritual struggle. Thus the houses of the prophets and saints, inhabited by secrets and lights, were kindled from his Muhammadan light, and sought from the flood of the gifts of his Ahmadine secret. And the raised roof is his head, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or it is said his spirit, which the Truth raised to Himself, so he turned with his heart, body, and totality towards Him, and his station with Him was higher than every high thing from the Throne to the earth, and his rank greater than every rank and mightier than all existents and all creation. And the overflowing sea ¹³⁷ is his ocean, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, which the rivers of the lexicon of ancient esoteric divine sciences and the secrets of His great and mighty words filled. Consider why this sea was made to overflow and was singled out for the perfection of this secret, so that the Truth, exalted be He, swore by it—is it because of the incapacity of intellects to grasp the reality of its meaning, or did divine jealousy prevent anyone from reaching the honor of its lofty rank and highness? For the Truth, exalted be He, swore in this verse by the heart of His beloved, upon him blessings and peace, in general, and by his head in particular, with a symbol of what He revealed to him by allusion and indication, and by what He specially gave him of unseen secrets and esoteric sciences (53) implicitly and explicitly. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, with a blessing that grants us, through its blessing, perfect faith, sincere certainty, and sound speech, and bestows upon us thereby in the gardens of Paradise a high degree and a spacious station, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. ❖ He is an ocean that watered the vast army with his hand, ❖ a river that removed the thirst of every heart. ❖ He is the most noble of the gnostics in sublime glory, ❖ and the most worthy to rise above all glories. ❖ He surpassed the seven high heavens ❖ to the Throne, as established by authentic transmission. ❖ In majesty, his Lord said to him: ❖ "Ask what you love, for you are the best of servants." ❖ He is the master of the two worlds and the two weighty ones ¹³⁸, ❖ with no likeness in the lowlands or highlands. ❖ He is the most generous of the generous when the wind of generosity blows upon him, ❖ and the most bountiful of the bountiful. ❖ He is Ahmad ¹³⁹, the gatherer of all praises, and the one ❖ who quenches the thirsty with his Kawthar ¹⁴⁰. ❖ He is Ahmad, the ocean of sciences, and never cease ❖ his high waves to increase. ❖ To him all the overflowing seas are diminished ❖ from his flood, in secret and supply. (54) ❖ Beneath the leg of the Throne he prostrates, interceding ❖ for creation when they are gathered for the appointed time. ❖ He is the one under whose banner's shade will seek refuge ❖ all creatures and the witnessing messengers. ❖ He is the pillar of the nations, which without him ❖ would have been without support. ❖ He is my treasure, my refuge, my hope, ❖ my provision, my support, and my desire. ❖ The vastness of his rank is my help and protection, ❖ my sufficiency, my guidance, and my rectitude. ❖ Whenever I hoped for guidance in my error, ❖ I found through him the correction of my corruption. ❖ My master, take my hand, fulfill my needs, ❖ and turn to me, and take refuge when I call. ❖ For You are the most protective of those I seek refuge in, ❖ in both abodes, my dwelling and my return. ❖ And upon you be Allah's blessings, O banner of guidance, ❖ as long as rain falls in the regions. ❖ And upon your noble, radiant companions, as long as ❖ the caller calls "Come to prayer." And this is the description of the ocean of sciences (55) filled with the gifts of esoteric sciences and the precious sublime rulings, overflowing and billowing, from which the first and the last have drawn, and tongues and pens have grown weary in its explanation, and the great and famous have crowded at its watering-place. (56)

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law ¹⁴¹, from whose fountainhead ¹⁴² he drank, and the Prophet of Mercy whose deeds are accepted. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, flowing upon the foundations of religion in its entirety and detail, and the fragrance of the breeze ¹⁴³ wafting in the gardens of the Kingdom and the Dominion ¹⁴⁴ with its ambergris and sandalwood. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, transmitted through sound traditions ¹⁴⁵ with continuous chains ¹⁴⁶ and sequences ¹⁴⁷, and the House of Prophethood ¹⁴⁸ established upon the foundations of honor, its last and its first. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, submerged in the gifts of mysteries ¹⁴⁹, his homeland and his dwelling, and the Pole of Sainthood ¹⁵⁰ illuminated by the lights of knowledge, his assembly and his gathering. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose Book was sent down from the heaven of the Unseen ¹⁵¹, and sweet of character, his answer and speech supported by revelation. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose wave and surge clash with the mysteries of gnosis ¹⁵², and the river of honey purified for the people of realities ¹⁵³, its taste and drink. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, pure his water and his soil, and the wine of love ¹⁵⁴, its pure draught and its bubbles. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, which leads to its paths and means, and the Sultan of the Kingdom ¹⁵⁵, whose rank and station are raised with Allah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose streets and doors are opened for those who desire, and the adornment of nature ¹⁵⁶, whose armies and parties are united in doing good. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, with a blessing by which we attain from His pleasure what his companions and followers attained, by which we become among those whose heart's rust and veil ¹⁵⁷ have been removed by love for him, and whose reckoning and punishment on the Day of Resurrection are lightened through his blessing, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose fame has spread throughout all worlds, the beacon of the guides ¹⁵⁸, whose house is raised upon the stations of piety. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose description is mentioned in the heavenly books, and the bride of the Divine Presences ¹⁵⁹, blessed his time and his moment. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose demeanor is adorned with light and splendor, and blessed of birth, pure his origin and his end, his planting and his growth. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose taste and flavor are safe from change, and the Imam of the Mysteries ¹⁶⁰, whose command and judgment prevail over the servants. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose name and description are adorned with the definite article ¹⁶¹, and the possessor of the lofty station, whose portion and share among the prophets are abundant. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Sacred Law, whose rain and mark ¹⁶² are a religion for the distant and the near, and the joy of the worlds, whose soul and body surpass the scent of roses and cloves. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, with a blessing by which we become among those whose knowledge and understanding of the rulings of the Sacred Laws are abundant, and whose apparent and hidden illness and disease are cured through its blessing, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. Glory be to Him who adorned him with form and image, and the light of his life encompasses the worlds. The meanings of Allah's Book are the character of his essence, and from his explanation the noble traits ¹⁶³ are narrated. He was characterized by the Qur'an, the lamp of his treasure, so the proofs from it stood for him. Before him his companions bowed their heads, their minds filled with knowledge. They were saturated with the knowledge of the Messenger of Allah entirely, and their innermost beings were full from his ocean. They are the fortunate ones who accompanied the most noble of mankind, and among them is the Trustworthy of Allah ¹⁶⁴ descending with revelation. O Messenger of Allah, O source of guidance, O mine of generosity that has no equal, O ocean of Allah's grace, O you at whose door goodness reaches Paradise. Upon you be abundant blessings of Allah, and the companionship of those whose virtues have followed. And this is the description of the ocean of the Sacred Law, filled with the gifts of divine knowledge ¹⁶⁵, the precious lofty rulings, the subtle mysteries of bestowed gifts ¹⁶⁶, and the wondrous wisdoms. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality ¹⁶⁷, who is the greatest mirror for those of insight and clear-sightedness, and the rising of good fortune and glad tidings for the people of obedience and the chosen elite. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, whose knowledge is hidden in the ocean of identities ¹⁶⁸ and the inner mysteries, and the Imam of the Path ¹⁶⁹, who persists in the remembrance of his Lord in the watches of the night and the ends of the day. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, the ripening blossoms and trees, and the pupil of the eye of Reality ¹⁷⁰, from whose light the light of suns and moons is represented. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, filled with the flashes of shining lights, and the possessor of the covenant ¹⁷¹, who prays much for his community and supplicates at dawn. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, sweet of watering-places in will and persistence, and generous of blessing upon him, He has mercy on the old and the young. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the noble masters, and his honorable pure companions, with a blessing by which You fulfill for us our needs and homelands, and by which You remove from us overwhelming calamities and harms, and by which You gather us with those upon whom You have bestowed favor, among the prophets and the truthful, in the abode of triumph and settlement, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, the trustworthy, whoever embarks upon it is safe from the two rivers of deviation and desire, and the pure of doctrines, protected by the lights of guidance, piety, and righteousness. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the Reality, great in goodness and beneficence, and preserved in infallibility, absolved from the accidents of doubts and claims.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of Reality ¹⁷², protected from the onslaught of evils and tribulations for whoever enters it, the remover of distress, unique for whoever seeks refuge in him in secret and in private counsel. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of Reality, whose riding is made subservient to the people of generosity and spiritual wayfaring, and the gathering place of subtle realities, whom You made a comprehensive isthmus ¹⁷³ between the Law and the Reality, for the Law is established by the duties of servitude, and the Reality is the witnessing of the attributes of Lordship, and they are in origin inseparable, like the inseparability of the spirit from the body, and of the dwelling from its inhabitant; there is no disparity between them. So the Law is the outward of the Path to Allah, and the Reality is the inward of witnessing the Presence of Allah, and both are stages for wayfaring and paths for manifesting the majesty of the King of Kings. So he—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—is: The ocean of divine realities and Throne lights, the fountain of scientific wisdoms and Persian secrets, the tablet of Hebrew sciences and kingdom signs, the pen of the Jabarut ¹⁷⁴ will, the spirit of spirits of humanity and divinity, the meeting place of the two seas ¹⁷⁵, outward by the prophetic Law and inward by the bestowed Reality. His ships are conveyed by winds of opening and acceptance, his anchors are known and unknown by contentment and submission. His inhabitants are the people of the Islamic community, his divers are the people of holy allusions, his leaders are the knowing poles ¹⁷⁶ and the firmly established pegs ¹⁷⁷, his guards are the perfect individuals ¹⁷⁸ and the connecting A'raf ¹⁷⁹, his rulers are the mujtahid imams and the acting scholars, his servants are the trustworthy ascetics and the good worshippers, his trustees are the patient ones and the remembering guides, his mountains are the steadfast A'raf and the righteous wayfarers, his circumambulators are the bewildered masters of states and the ecstatic devotees, his merchants are the yearning lovers and the elite of the pure elect. The winds of his sails blow from the side of the blessed Yemeni Mount Sinai, and the orbits of the lovers move by the catapults of his ecstatic passion. His people are truthful in words, secure in deeds, sincere in states; they swim in his depths to extract from him the pearls of subsistence and the coral of piety. Allah has appointed angels to guard him in his length and breadth, and to assist him in his expansion and contraction. His supply flows through all existences, his fragrance spreads in all regions and lands, and he encompasses the present and the absent, the far and the near. The great ones of the elite and the notables crowd at his sweetest watering-place, and his blessings follow successively upon those who are engrossed in praising him throughout the ages and times. So may Allah bless him and his family, pure in garments and sleeves, and his companions, purified in hearts and bodies, a blessing by which we become among those whom He regards with the eye of His care in secret and in public, and makes them in the protection of His guardianship and guards their side from the accidents of stripping and deficiency, and grant him abundant and exalted peace. And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Muhammad the Chosen, the most noble of those who called to obedience to the Merciful, his caller, and who guided us to Islam, following the pleasure of God by revelation and transcendence, and who brought us a clear religion, dispelling the darkness of polytheism and its shadows cleared away. The best of prophets, nothing among creation resembles him, nor does any equal him. A truthful messenger, Allah created him as a rain of generosity, so the wind sent forth vies with him in bounty. He was the most generous of creatures, and most generous in Ramadan, he spent the night reviving it. He spends the night at the Throne's God, being fed from what is with Him without how, and being given to drink. His eyes sleep but his heart is awake, from what he witnesses of the lights of his Creator. An ocean, we saw generosity from his hands, so the fingers of the Nile, if they came, his hands would surpass them. Pure of heart from deceit and filth, noble of origin, pure of branch and lineage. The refined garden of verification at Haranda ¹⁸⁰, a vast science, concise in word, encompassing. May Allah bless him as long as the clouds of the unseen pour down and their torrents flow, and as long as lovers chant in the sand ¹⁸¹ towards Hijaz, and the guide of the caravan urges it on. And this is the description of the ocean of Reality, filled with the gifts of gnosis and the sciences of the Path. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses the worlds of the earth, and the treasure of wisdom filled with the subtleties of secrets and the gifts of goodness and growth. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses the inhabitants of the deserts, the wildernesses, the graves, and the depths of water, and by him You adorned the rows of angels glorifying their Lord with the tongue of praise, thanks, and the highest glory. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses the servants of the veils and the curtains, the sources of light and darkness, and the angels surrounding the Throne, the Footstool, and the flourishing lofty tree of Tuba. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses all creatures with the gifts of generosity and abundant blessings, and the spiritual souls preached his name in the enclosures of holiness and the manifestations of attributes and names. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses what enters the earth and what comes out of it, what descends from heaven and what ascends into it, what is above the above and beneath the Bahamut ¹⁸², and the light of the King named Nun ¹⁸³ and the Pen, and the treasuries of compassion and omnipotence. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses the people of Sinai, Saghin, and Paran ¹⁸⁴, and those who were not commanded to prostrate to Adam from the inhabitants of the kingdom and the dominion, and the rows of the holy ones and those swimming in the seas of might and majesty. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompasses the angels of mercy appointed over all regions and heavens, and those whom Allah made intercessors, reaching the means of the people of desire and awe.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose mercy encompassed the angels about whom their Lord said: "Whoever's 'Amin' coincides with their 'Amin', his supplication will be answered and his desire will be attained in the presence of the Possessor of Might and Majesty." And upon whom the lights of theophanies shone, so that hardly any of them could move his brow out of awe of the Ever-Living, the Eternal, who never dies. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, who honor the stations and houses, and his companions, perfect in attributes and descriptions, with a blessing that makes our earnings and sustenance wholesome for us, and protects us from terrifying horrors in all days and times, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, from the overflow of whose bounty the streams of goodness and blessings flow, and from whose beautiful attributes the lightning of generosity and kindness flashes. (73) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whose conduct is followed by those of high aspirations and noble traits, and from whose brilliant sciences the jewels of benefits and wisdoms are derived. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whom his Lord praised explicitly in ancient times and commended with the great character in the Surah "Nun, by the Pen" ¹⁸⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, by whose mission the spiritual souls ¹⁸⁶ between the Rukn ¹⁸⁷, the Hatim ¹⁸⁸, and Zamzam ¹⁸⁹ were revived, and the physical beings prostrated to his might in the Sacred Mosque, the place of prayer, and the banner. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, by whose appearance all beings and all nations were blessed, and by whose birth the near-stationed angels and all Arabs and non-Arabs rejoiced. (74) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, before whose generosity the generosity of clouds and rain felt ashamed, and by whose blessing the adversities of evils, misery, and punishments were repelled. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, through whom insects were shown mercy, and the wild beasts of hills and mountains clung to his skirts, and the intercessor of the community, specially distinguished with sovereignty and creation in the darkness of non-existence. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, the generous, the beginning and the end, and the lofty aspiration, whom his Lord advanced in the station of Qaba Qawsayn ¹⁹⁰ over every possessor of feet. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (75) the ocean of mercy, whose intercession is hoped for every terrifying horror to be entered, and the fragrance of the breath illuminated by his light in the darkness of dense shadows and the blackness of nights. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, honored in ranks and aspirations, and his companions, who fulfill covenants and trusts, with a blessing that makes us among Your obedient servants, and by its blessing removes from us the adversities of worries, sorrows, and illness, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever spends his time in praising his noble qualities becomes among the people of intimacy and boldness, and whoever seeks refuge in his lofty sanctuary is safe in both worlds from trials, earthquakes, and terrors. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever uses his limbs in obedience to him, the free and the slaves serve him, (76) and whoever spends his life in his service, the oceans of goodness and bounty overflow upon him. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever makes the blessing upon him his constant habit, the hard rocks and mountains become soft for him, and whoever is determined in his love, Allah will whiten his forehead among the lovers, and look upon him with the eye of veneration and glorification. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever drinks from his purest spring, the mirror of his inner self becomes clear, and he becomes among the masters of ecstatic utterances ¹⁹¹ and states, and whoever attaches himself to his door, He brings him near to His presence and clothes him with the robe of the Abdal ¹⁹² and the Awtad ¹⁹³. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever claims affiliation to him, Allah grants him acceptance on earth, and makes him beloved to women and men, and whoever seeks protection in his sanctuary is safe from the assault of enemies, the calamities of time, and the vicissitudes of circumstances. (77) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever concludes his litanies with blessing upon him, attains the most complete merits and the noblest traits, and whoever shuns the gatherings of his pure remembrances is counted among the people of misery, disgrace, and ruin. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, whoever writes his name and hangs it upon himself is protected from the insinuations of Satan and the assault of the people of deviation and misguidance, and whoever dies upon his innate disposition ¹⁹⁴, Allah will establish him with the firm word and inspire him with his proof on the Day of Presentation and Questioning. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the strings of pearls, and his companions, the nobles and heroes, with a blessing that suffices us against the evil of every treacherous deceiver, and every boastful vainglorious one, and grants us refuge from the trial of life and death, the evil end, and the trial of the Antichrist, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. My heart inclined toward meeting us, and my eye, with weeping, resembled a cloud. (78) A beauty captivated us, the company of lovers, whose sight never missed us. A comely one who rules over hearts, and in him we are forever independent of others. We ransomed him with our very souls, just as he ransomed us from the blaze of separation.

We saw Him in a state of union ¹⁹⁵, preferring His love, so He brought us near to Him, and He watched over us. May my father and mother be sacrificed for a Beloved ¹⁹⁶ who, through Him, sufficed us forever from other than Him. He gave us refuge unto Him throughout the nights, and from our perils He protected us for all time. Through Him we were perfected from every deficiency, so from His perfection we became equal in loss. Through Him He honored us in every assembly; for us there is pride through Him that manifests openly. He guided us to a straight religion; through Him we surpassed the ancients when He guided us. He called us to guidance in word and deed—how sweet is the Beloved when He called us! He purified us from impurities with a purification, and clothed us with a light that adorned His noble traits. From transformation ¹⁹⁷, engulfment ¹⁹⁸, and hastened punishment ¹⁹⁹ by which one is tormented, we attained security. A gift from our Lord, the Guide, to us; He bestowed Him upon us as a favor from our Master. (79) Ever-merciful and kind to us, He will have mercy on us and admit us into gardens. He will veil us from the Fire as a grace, and give us to drink pure wine ²⁰⁰ when He sees us. Even if we are disobedient, He increases in compassion—how splendid is the tenderness of the Guide! For we have no merciful one like Taha ²⁰¹ when the All-Compelling ²⁰² tries us with a trial. And our Lord becomes greatly angry, and every prophet has abandoned us. He says, 'I am for her the treasure of congratulations, the Messenger of Allah, who suffices us.' So at distress, He comes to us quickly, and at our illness, He is our cure. And at hardship, He manifests ease through his supplication, when it had befallen us. He manifested our honor in every land, so we have not seen after honor any humiliation for us. By Allah, His beloved will never meet with humiliation when He has served him the gardens. He attains honor from the Lord of lords, for the honor of Allah is the greatest thing that has come to us. So for me, my family, and my children, purified, He says to us, 'Enter, and all of you are our sanctuary.' And my brothers and all my loved ones—tomorrow Taha will greatly honor our union. (80) Upon him and his Family be the purest peace, and upon his Companions—my Lord has guided us. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him with the tongue of the state ²⁰³, bestows upon him what he desires and comes before the request. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and extends his hand, presents him with successive blessings and spreads his wing. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks from him the gift, welcomes him, makes it easy, spreads comfort for him, and paves the way for him. (81) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and extends his provision, grants him from the gifts of good things beyond what he wished and increases him. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks from him the aid, his face beams, and he grants him from the secrets and what no human can describe nor number can contain. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and points to him with the eye ²⁰⁴, he rejoices and smiles in his face, and fills his mouth with gold and the eye. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad (82) the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and complains to him of what he has suffered from the evil eye, is cured instantly and protected from the assault of every spy and eye. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and intends him with essence and eye, bestows upon him the gift of bestowedness, so that all becomes seas and an eye. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks his aid, fulfills what he intended and fulfills his promise. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and raises to him his need in which he lacks (83) strength and power, does not return him except with it or with an easy word. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks from him what is with him, hastens his request, even if his soul were in it, he would bestow it upon him. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and stands at his door, the asker says, 'The gift of Allah, so I am more entitled to it than his brothers and loved ones.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks refuge in his presence, grants him security from what he fears on the Day of the Great Terror ²⁰⁵, and saves him from His wrath and punishment. (84) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and rubs his cheek on his thresholds, with the humility of asking on his face, he clothes him with his finest garments. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and seeks intercession through his family and companions, brings him near with the closeness of the beloved, and gives him to drink the delicious drink. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and sets down his saddle in his spacious courtyard, receives him with cheerfulness and welcome, and makes him among the people of his pure party and his groups. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our Master and Lord Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad (85) the ocean of mercy, who, when the asker asks him and enters under his tent ropes, protects him from hidden calamities, and cures him from his apparent and hidden ailments, and commends him.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy ²⁰⁶, who, when the seeker asks him and clings to the honor of his stirrup, is saved from the terror of the Day of Resurrection and the scrutiny of the account and its reproach. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of mercy, who, when the seeker asks him and clings to his eyelashes, is safe from the onslaught of nights and days when time bares its fangs. So bless him, O Allah, and his family with a blessing by which we become among those who wiped their faces on his illuminated tomb ²⁰⁷, sought blessing by kissing his dust, and observed proper conduct before him in their intimate prayer and address, and asked him for protection from hardships in their going and coming, and for guidance to the path of truth and its correctness ⁸⁶. And grant abundant peace forever, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of merciful mercy ²⁰⁸, the treasure of omnipotent wisdom ²⁰⁹, the manifestation of the lights of the kingdom ²¹⁰, the subtlety of holy secrets ²¹¹, the tongue of supplications of desire ²¹², the awe of majestic grandeur ²¹³, the means of hearts in fear ²¹⁴, to whom his Lord said: "When a seeker asks you about Me, guide him to Me with the gentlest indication, and make him love Me with the noblest speech, for I am near, transcendent beyond how-ness and where-ness, human states, and all attributes of temporality. I bestow the gift before the request, and I answer the prayer of whoever calls upon Me with the tongue of state and speech, and I have mercy on whoever seeks intercession through you and intercedes with effort in state and wealth. All creatures are orphans in your care and the lowly at your court, so do not oppress them nor drive them from your precincts, but be good to them and support them with your Muhammadan support ²¹⁵, and clothe them with the robes of your Ahmadine secret ²¹⁶. For I have placed the treasuries of My mercy in your hand and the keys of My unseen with you. So give whomever you wish from your request ⁸⁷, and have mercy on whomever you wish from your dependents. For you are the compassionate, the forbearing, and I am the bountiful, the generous. I become angry when My servant does not ask Me, and when he asks Me, I am pleased with him and honor him with My gift and bounty. I bestow upon him majesty in My dominion, beauty in My kingdom, awe in My omnipotence, fear in My terror, dignity in My mercy, response in My desire, grandeur and high standing in My might, connection in My command, gentleness with the eye of My subtlety, strength in My presence in the greatness of My overwhelming power. And make his spirit ever ascending in the stages of Your Ahmadine love, and the worlds of his secret ever receiving the gifts of Your Mustafawian ²¹⁷ descents, and the impulses of his passion ever yearning for the beauty of Your radiant and splendid countenance. And seal him with the seal of felicity, and resurrect him with Your blessed and blissful company, O My beloved, O Muhammad. Upon you be the best of blessings, the purest of greetings, the most abundant of benedictions, and the most pleasant of peace at all times, and upon your family and companions who illuminate souls, hearts, and essences. O Prophet, O Muhammad. * Taha ²¹⁸, the bridegroom of holiness, the key to purity, / From the knowledge of the unseen, how many a mystery he unveiled. * The opening of hearts to comprehend the secrets of guidance, / Until he elucidated the lexicon of subtleties. * Allah gave him dominion over the hearts of His servants, / So he became, by the illumination of hearts, authoritative ⁸⁸. * He entrusted the eyes with constant gazing upon them, / Their lights feared not blindness thereafter. * Glory be to Him who made hearts His soldiers, / So that bodies obey them in what they know. * And through him the face of guidance beamed smiling, / And by his mission the pillar of error collapsed. * Allah sent him to us as a mercy, / So he became for us a grace, more merciful to us. * Allah praised him in His revelation, / And by his life in His remembrance He swore. And this is the description of the Muhammadan ocean of mercy with its surging waves, of the gifts of generosity and kindness and the Ahmadine secret ⁸⁹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of the Essence, and the book of revelation inscribed with the jewels of Names and Attributes. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of manifestations and self-disclosures, and the book of revelation encompassed by the gleams of miracles and clear signs. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of intellectual and heart sciences, and the book of revelation encompassing all types of universals and particulars. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad ⁹¹, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of openings and inspirations, and the book of revelation whose jewels of expressions are spread in the assemblies of the people of states and stations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of gifts and miracles, and the book of revelation revealing the states of the people of allusions and signs. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the masters of mutual purity and proximity, and the book of revelation encompassing the sciences of religions and the preservation of trusts. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of recitation and blessings ⁹², and the book of revelation specified with the secrets of intimate prayers and the answering of supplications. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, extending from the radiant points of the lights of sanctifications and glorifications, and the book of revelation whose secret penetrates the hearts of the people of attractions and ecstatic utterances.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of light ²¹⁹, extending from the rising points of the lights of good words and righteous deeds, and the Book of Revelation filled with proofs of clear evidences and signs. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the mines of piety and obedience, and his Companions, the imams of the Sunnah and the community, with a blessing by which You regard us with the eye of Your kindness and care in all times and hours, and by which You make us among Your servants specially favored with complete satisfaction and acceptance of intercessions, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. (93) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, from whom the jewels of divine wisdom are derived from the flashes of His attributes and names, and the unique pearls of sacred hadith ²²⁰ are gathered from His reports and subtle tidings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, whom the oceans of lights have veiled from the glories of His lights and the rays of His radiance, and the eyes of beholders are bewildered by the beauty of His countenance and the splendor of His sky. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, before whom the stars are diminished by the brilliance of His glory and the honor of His rank and sublimity, and the suns of the thoughts of the knowers ²²¹ are eclipsed by the rising of His beauties and the full moon of His sky. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (94) the ocean of light, by whom the regions of the kingdom and the dominion ²²² were illuminated with the lamps of His praiseworthy hadiths, and His praise and eulogy shone forth, and the treasuries of mercy and omnipotence overflowed at the opening of the treasures of His gifts and bestowals. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, the highlands and lowlands were illuminated by His appearance upon the throne of sovereign kingship and His dominion, and the dwellings of the destitute and widows were revived by the clouds of His generosity and abundant blessings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, by whom the worlds were illuminated by the witnessing of His beauty and splendor, and the gates of heaven were opened for His victory and the answering of His supplication. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, by whom the enclosures of holiness ²²³ rejoiced at His ascension and night journey ²²⁴, (95) and the glad tidings of good appeared at the rising of His auspicious star and His creation. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, who illuminated the cosmos with the beauty of His conduct and His chosenness, and the space of the worlds shone with the delight of His virtues and His selection. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, who enlightened the inner sights with the stars of His guidance and the rising lights of His intelligence and acumen, and healed the yearning bodies with His beneficial antidote and remedy. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, whom no one has attained His noble station in His sublimity and ascension, and no one has comprehended the essence of His reality in its beginning and end. (96) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of light, of whom it was said to a lord at the time of tracing the form of His noble likeness and embellishing His margins, edges, and virtues: 'If this ocean were filled with water, a qintar ²²⁵ of gold would be little in His right, for what Allah has described Him of the abundance of His generosity and munificence.' So bless him, O Allah, and his family, with a blessing by which we become among those who are clad in the robe of His covering and veil, and seek refuge in His most secure sanctuary, and enter under His fortified fortress and banner, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. A Prophet whom the sun has not seen except * it grew weary of His beauties out of modesty Great, if He humbles Himself out of loftiness * Mighty, He is not pleased with pride He encompassed the beauty of perfection and spoke truthfully * and did good in deeds and did no wrong He restored the religions through His religion to truth * while before they were falsehood and slander By His mention, we are moved with joy and longing * so that you would think we have drunk wine (97) And why should I not yearn for a Beloved * in whose praise intoxication has taken hold? The Messenger of Allah, the highest of people in rank * and the most generous of them and the most spacious in expanse And he who was given the means ²²⁶ in the high stations * and he who was given the means and the banner The intercessor of sinners, my stumbling is slight * for You are the best of those who hear the call I have called You after my sins became great * and life was wasted, so answer the prayer And who is there for me to visit You after distance * in the morning, O Muhammad, or in the evening? And to kiss a soil that exudes fragrance * and to look at it when it is filled with light And if I am persistent in returning to sin * then be for the ailment of my sin a cure And grant me from You in both abodes ²²⁷ favor * and give me to drink from the Basin ²²⁸ to quench May Allah reward You on our behalf with all good * and increase You, O son of Amina, in glory Upon You be the blessing of the Lord, as long as the east wind blows * a breeze from Najd, gentle or mild And may my greetings ever greet * Your noble, pious Companions O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (98) the ocean of light, filled with the secrets of divine unity and the sciences of the Qur'an, and the Book of Revelation inscribed with the realities and lights of unveilings and evidences of certainty, and the leaves of openings ²²⁹ spread in the manifestations of the gracious theophanies and the rising points of gnosis, and the house of the secret filled with the subtleties of subtleties and the gifts of grace and favor, and the prophethood raised upon the foundations of the Moulawi ²³⁰ Sharia, and the stations of proximity and nearness, and the ocean of the message blazing with the sciences of descents and receptions, and the mirrors of witnessing and vision, and the handful of essential light by which Allah illuminated the treasuries of the unseen of the Omnipotent, and the enclosures of holiness and the paradises of the gardens. So His Ahmadic form is the manifestation of the light of the solitary theophany, and His Muhammadan spirit is the spirit of the spiritual and corporeal world, for from his Mustafawi ²³¹ light the cosmic lights split, and from his Moulawi secret the holy secrets split, and in him the gnostic realities ascended, and the sciences of Adam descended, so he surpassed the human creatures and the luminous individuals, and to him the understandings are diminished, so no one from among us, earlier or later, has grasped what his Lord has specially given him of the secrets of His essential sciences and the particularities of his lordly perfections (99), for the reality of that no one among creatures has grasped with his understanding, nor encompassed it with anything from the rays of his perception and knowledge. And if the saint ²³² is not grasped in his reality, how then can the Prophet be grasped?

With these perceptions, how then with the Messengers ²³³, peace be upon them, who are marked by special distinction and the call to God in all states and all paths? So what of the Master of creation, preferred over the Messengers, the Prophets, jinn, humans, and all angels, whom none has equaled in his highness, nor has any shared his rank? People have not grasped the reality of his affair, and his secret has remained hidden, above the measure of their human intellects. What has appeared to them of that is a grace upon them, that they may know his worth and magnify his affair; and what has been hidden from them is a mercy from God upon them, for if it had appeared to them while they failed to fulfill the due rights, it would have been a trial for them. God Most High sent him as a mercy to the worlds, so the grace lies in what appeared, and the mercy in what was concealed. Chapter: O God, bless and grant peace to him and to his Family, the masters of the people of the desert and the city, and to his Companions, crowned with the crown of might and glory, a blessing by which You regard us with Your eye of care in our coming and going, and by which You adorn us with the perfection of Your protection, coupled with victory and triumph, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. He is the overflowing fountain of light and guidance; after him, for the one who arrives, there is no increase. ²³⁴ He is the greatest favor, He is the blessing for which the gratitude of mankind falls short and perishes. He is the unique jewel, whose knot of glory is unique with the light of self-disclosure and witnessing. He is the firmest handle, He is the proof which a witness from him confirms. For if not for him, we would not exist, nor would anything exist, nor would there be a promise or a threat between us. Upon him be God's blessing and His peace, and upon his family and companions, as long as a seeker comes. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of divine lights ²³⁵ nothing has emerged more radiant than the grasp of his prophetic, chosen light, nor purer than the light of his Muhammadan, Ahmadine beauty. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of holy lights nothing has emerged more luminous than his eternal, everlasting light, nor more perfect than the might of his ancient, eternal essence. ²³⁶ O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of self-subsistent lights nothing has emerged more noble than his auspicious, felicitous crescent, nor more fragrant than his dewy, perfumed flower. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of desirous lights nothing has emerged more beautiful than the jewel of his unique excellences, nor more spotless than his radiant, rosy cheek. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of awe-inspiring lights nothing has emerged more excellent than his servile, lordly form, nor more majestic than his holy, intimate secret. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, ²³⁷ Your beloved, from whose oceans of angelic lights nothing has emerged more blessed than his Tihami, Najdi bride, nor sweeter than his sugary, honeyed speech. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of majestic lights nothing has emerged more luminous than his guiding, rightly-guided star, nor more beneficial than his illuminated, guiding Book. So bless him, O God, and his Family, a blessing by which You make me attain, through Your pleasure and his pleasure, the utmost of my hope and the limit of my intention, and make it a treasure for me whose blessing I find when I descend alone into the grave, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of glorified lights nothing has emerged more pleasant than his remembrance, mingled with spirits and essences, nor stronger than his succor sent down from the treasuries of the Lord of the earths and heavens. ²³⁸ O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of majestic lights nothing has emerged more felicitous than his name mentioned in the openings of chapters and verses, nor more exalted than his blessed tree, which is the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary of prophecies, messages, and the highest perfections. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of merciful lights nothing has emerged more subtle than his spirituality, marked by all kinds of blessings and felicities, nor more delightful than his radiant forehead, illuminated by the lights of acts of obedience and worship. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of lordly lights nothing has emerged higher ²³⁹ than his throne, borne upon the shoulder of divine decree and wills, nor more expansive than the tablet of his heart, which is the place where the jewels of revelation and the subtle truths of sciences and benefits descend. So bless him, O God, and his Family, a blessing by which You cause the secrets of miracles and extraordinary events to flow through our hands, and by which You clothe us with the garments of acceptance and pleasure and the precious gifts of glory, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of bestowed lights nothing has emerged more beloved than his beautiful essence, nor more pure than his noble, magnificent, and excellent qualities. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of unseen lights nothing has emerged more sublime than his lofty, most exalted station, nor higher than his rank, which is the station of "two bow-lengths or nearer" ²⁴⁰. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of luminous lights nothing has emerged more radiant than the luminosity of his purified, victorious, and established heart, nor more delightful than his exquisite beauties, both sensory and spiritual. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of holy lights nothing has emerged more luminous than his countenance, abundant in brightness and splendor, nor sweeter than his goodly names, titles, and epithets. O God, bless and grant peace to our Master and Patron Muhammad and to the Family of our Master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of throne-like lights nothing has emerged greater than his majestic attributes of praise, nor

More generous than his delightful traditions are eating and paradise. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, with a blessing that relieves us through it from weariness ²⁴¹ and toil and hardship, and conveys us through it to the utmost goal and desire of Your pleasure and his, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of majestic lights nothing has emerged more radiant than the emerald of his green beauty, nor more precious than the ruby of his brilliant and resplendent excellences. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of beautiful lights nothing has emerged more beautiful than the pearl of his red perfections, nor more precious than the unique gem of his immaculate virtues and the yellow pearl of his glories. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of abundant lights nothing has emerged more luminous than the unique gem of his white station ²⁴², nor more renowned than his noble qualities, to which our Lord alluded in His words: "And your Lord will give you, and you will be satisfied." O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of noble lights nothing has emerged more radiant than his jewel, by which Allah illuminated the regions of the kingdom and the dominion and the expanse of space, nor greater than the miracles of his wonders that dazzled the minds of those to come and those past. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of sublime lights nothing has emerged more honorable than his Muhammadan ruby, the like of which has not been found in the treasuries of Chosroes and the Khagan, nor in the bellies of the fish at the junction of the two seas nor in the kingdom of the Sassanids. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad ²⁴³, Your beloved, from whose oceans of subtle lights nothing has emerged more pleasing than his ruby, at whose wondrous craftsmanship all beings marveled, nor more fortunate than his well-arranged necklace, the like of which the jinn did not make for the prophet of Allah, Solomon. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of eternal lights nothing has emerged more majestic than his ruby, upon which is inscribed: "Nothing more wondrous than what was is possible," and on its borders: "The sun and the moon follow a reckoning, and the stars and trees prostrate." So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the beautiful full moons, and his Companions, the nobles of the sons of Ma'add and 'Adnan, with a blessing by which You save us from the accidents of deprivation and deficiency, and by which You grant us security in both abodes, and by which You settle us in the spacious gardens, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. The stations of gnosis have reached you, and the landmarks of elucidation have drawn near you. A nation has donned the cloak of Your knowledge, appearing through the collection of the sources of the Criterion ²⁴⁴. You have emerged, captivating minds and bending them, and you see a manifestation that has no second. By Allah, what a necklace you have placed on the necks of mortals with virtue that surpasses gold! O Unique One of the dominion in His prophets, His splendor, and the ranks of the essences! O Qibla of the essences, exalted is a relationship that calls you among us by Your beneficent name. The pages of Your unicity are recited from the unseen of witnessing by the tongues of beings. And the folds of the stations sway, unveiling like a tree swaying with the most flourishing branches. And this is the description of the Muhammadan sea of light, surrounded by kinds of noble qualities and the subtleties of the Ahmadine secret ²⁴⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of the secret, whose flow emanates from the presence of the King, the Judge, and the result of the remembrance extracted from the jewels of revelation and the sciences of the Qur'an. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, whose secret permeates the unseen of identities and the worlds of spirits and bodies, and the spirit of the command, manifest and hidden, in the treasuries of the unseen and the mirrors of witnessing and vision. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, whose bounty overflows upon the attendants of the divine presence and the great nobles of the essences, and the crown of glory whose bride is displayed on the dais of proximity, nearness, joy, and congratulations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad ²⁴⁶, the sea of the secret, supplying the spirits of prophets, angels, humans, and jinn, and the light of dawn shining upon the higher and lower worlds and all beings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, filled with subtle gifts and bestowals of virtue and favor, and the beauty of the age, blessed in family, companions, and all tribes and brothers. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, whose waves surge with the materials of generosity, kindness, and beneficence, and the fields of thought that, by his blessing, relieve the crisis of distresses, worries, and sorrows. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, from whose overflowing abundance the masters of eloquence and clarity draw ²⁴⁷, and the treasure of provision, whose name is inscribed on the leg of the Throne, the gates of Paradise, and the necks of the beautiful houris. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the secret, filled with the lights of realities and the shining of gnosis, and the guarantor of security, who gives glad tidings to his community of attaining success, happiness, pardon, and forgiveness.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret ²⁴⁸ surrounded by the gardens of divine pleasure and contentment, and the fragrance of diffusion whose scent wafts in the desired vista and the paradises of gardens. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, renowned for auspiciousness, blessing, and renown, and the sword of victory that, with its proofs, subdues the people of transgression and tyranny. (114) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, flowing over the pebbles of silver and gold and plates of pure gold, and the perfect reward, the rescuer of whoever seeks refuge with him from the depths of misery, error, and abandonment. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, the courageous with the emotions of mercy, compassion, and tenderness, and the veil of concealment lowered over the obedient and the disobedient, the distant and the near. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, abundant in flow and outpouring, and the locus of patience, spacious in comfort and fingertips. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (115) the ocean of the secret, strong in current and flow, and the truthful report, infallible in limbs and tongue. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, wondrous in craftsmanship and perfection, and the eraser of burden, protected from lying, betrayal, and concealment. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, vast in streams and inlets, and the talisman of restoration, healing whoever treats himself with it from the filth of sins and stains. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of the secret, quenching with its pure water the heart of the thirsty and the parched, (116) and the great in rank, honored by Your saying: "The Most Merciful taught the Qur'an" ²⁴⁹ That is, His Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, the lofty in rank and station, supported by clear signs and the seven oft-repeated verses ²⁵⁰. Then He made clear his excellent virtue over Adam, peace be upon him, when He taught him his names, and taught Muhammad his sublime and great attributes, since attributes are not devoid of names according to the perceptions of intellects and understandings. And His saying: "He created man" ²⁵¹ means the perfect man, that is, the Ahmadic reality ²⁵² exalted beyond the grasp of the intellects of the people of his knowledge, and the Muhammadan subtlety ²⁵³ which is the mirror of witnessing for the people of his love, and the Mustafawi jewel ²⁵⁴ created from the light of his Ahmadic nature, the might of his eternity, and the honor of his self-subsistence. He singled him out with the purest of His servitude, and gathered in him what was dispersed of the secrets of his prophethood. "He taught him eloquence" ²⁵⁵ that is, the hidden secret that no pen has concealed, no inspired one has spoken of, no tongue has recited, nor has it appeared to the eye, nor has any angel, human, or jinn been informed of it, nor has it been cast into hearts, nor have two eyes witnessed it, nor have any scriptures or heavenly books or registers contained it. Rather, He confided it to him and inscribed it in the unseen of His Ipseity ²⁵⁶ and wrote it on the parchment of the heart of his Ahmadic nature (117) and stamped it with the stamp of His Divinity, and commanded him to conceal it in secret and in public. "Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His unseen to anyone except whom He approves as a messenger" ²⁵⁷ He singled him out with the secrets of sciences and the realities of gnosis. So he is the approved messenger for that specially bestowed knowledge ²⁵⁸, which was veiled from the prophets, messengers, angels, those brought near, and all the saints, the elite, and the elect. So consider, O intelligent one, this lofty and great station, and this sublime and magnificent rank, with which Allah distinguished the noble Prophet, and honored him with it in His prior eternity and the design of the pen of His ancient will. And He alluded to his special distinction in the clear verses of His wise Book, by His saying: "So He revealed to His servant what He revealed" ²⁵⁹ for the ambiguity is for glorification, magnification, and exaltation. And He increased his honor by His saying: "And We have given you seven of the oft-repeated verses and the great Qur'an" ²⁶⁰ And He adorned him with His great essential attributes, and preferred him with His sublime and lofty names and the delicate sciences, both sensory and spiritual, that are bestowed by Him. So the prophets, messengers, saints, righteous, perfect inheritors, and gnostic poles ²⁶¹ derive from his Furqanic Book ²⁶² and seek from the secret of his Rahmanic opening ²⁶³, and read from the tablet of his luminous knowledge (118) and the diffusion of the written lines of his Samadani understanding ²⁶⁴, because he said: "I am from Allah and the believers are from me" ²⁶⁵, and "O people, I am the Messenger of Allah to you all" ²⁶⁶. And my Lord has distinguished me with His greatest chosenness and elected me for the secret of His highest speciality, and gifted me with the gifts of His all-encompassing and most perfect goodness, and granted me a chosen, holy, and lofty station, and clothed me with a divine, Rahmanic, solitary, and wondrous beauty, and preferred me over all the prophets and messengers, and made me an intercessor whose intercession is accepted. The Chosen One, the ocean of generosity, the banner of guidance, the treasure of sublimity ascending to the seven heavens. The highest of creation in rank, the most perfect of them in brilliance, and the greatest of them in measure absolutely. Until he said: O master of the two worlds, O banner of guidance, O chosen one for noble character traits. O seal of the messengers, O treasure of creation, O mine of forbearance and compassion. O Ahmad the praised, O he whose glory rises to the horizon of happiness. By your most exalted and invincible rank, my orientation is toward the Eternal Lord, the Most High, the Everlasting. And perhaps He will, by His grace, release me from the bonds of sins, errors, and faults. And I may attain a portion of your intercession that saves from burning and drowning. (119) May Allah, whose majesty is exalted, bless you as long as the kingdom of the One, the Creator, endures. And upon all your excellent Companions, as long as branches are adorned with leaves.

His saying, exalted be He: “The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation” ²⁶⁷ Since they derive from the Muhammadan light ²⁶⁸ and seek and borrow from the Ahmadine secret ²⁶⁹. “And the star and the trees prostrate” ²⁷⁰ to the beauty of that noble, exalted pearl of the Chosen One ²⁷¹ and the perfection of that brilliant ruby which has no partner or second in its beauty, because God, exalted be He, clothed it in a garment of the splendor of His beauty, a great awe from the might of His majesty, and a lordly majesty from the attributes of His perfection, and manifested the secret of that in His saying: “Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to God” ²⁷² and increased its honor by His saying: “Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God” ²⁷³ and magnified its sanctity by His saying: “O you who have believed, do not put [yourselves] before God and His Messenger, and fear God. Indeed, God is Hearing and Knowing.” ²⁷⁴ “O you who have believed, do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet, nor speak loudly to him as you speak loudly to one another, lest your deeds become worthless while you perceive not.” ²⁷⁵ until His saying: “you do not reason.” ²⁷⁶ So recognize the right of his great rank and his magnificent status. “And the heaven He raised” ²⁷⁷ meaning the heaven of his Muhammadan sovereignty, and adorned it with the lamps of his majestic and beautiful perfections, sanctifying it from the perceptions of spiritual intellects, the lights of physical insights, and the stages of human creatures. None borrow from its lights except the people of election and proximity, and none seek from the seas of its secrets except the people of divine selection, might, and love, and the masters of holy witnessing, clear unveilings, bestowed openings, ecstatic utterances, lofty states, pleasing character, spiritual wayfaring and attraction, and they taste delicious tastes and pure springs, and those whose spirits are purified in the presence of their Lord, and the cups of drink circulate among them. “And He set up the balance” ²⁷⁸ by which you may weigh the value of this trust that was offered to the heavens and the earth, and they refused to carry it ²⁷⁹. “That you not transgress in the balance” ²⁸⁰ which God has veiled from the eyes of your intellects, the understandings of your transmitted knowledge, the secrets of your sciences, and the results of your rational knowledge. And reflect on the hadith of Jabir ²⁸¹ who said: “God created the spirit of His beloved Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, from the light of His essence and the attributes of His perfections, and created the entire world from the light of his spirit, and inscribed the secret of the meanings of that in the knowledge of His Tablet.” ²⁸² “And establish weight with justice” ²⁸³ That is, when a secret from the secrets of his prophethood is unveiled to you, or a light from the lights of his messengership, or a treasure from the treasures of his preserved secret, or a knowledge from his divinely-bestowed hidden knowledge, then be just in that and weigh your breaths, thoughts, stations, and states with the balances of the sublime Law, the luminous Reality, sincerity in the path of servitude, and acknowledgment of the perfection of Lordship, for you are owned estates, restricted by the overwhelming might of Divinity. “And do not diminish the balance” ²⁸⁴ That is, do not decrease or increase, do not change or alter, and stop at what is prescribed for you; thereby your ranks will be raised with your Owner and Creator, as has come in some reports: “O son of Adam, be just as you love that justice be done to you, and fulfill as you love that fulfillment be done to you.” And as one of the knowers ²⁸⁵ said: “Deeds and balances are diverse, and justice is the balance of God on earth. Whoever weighs his deeds with the balance of justice is among the worshippers; whoever weighs his movements with the balance of justice is among the lovers; whoever weighs his thoughts and breaths with the balance of justice is among the knowers.” And the balances of justice in this world are three: the balance of the soul and spirit, the balance of the heart and intellect, and the balance of knowledge and the secret. The balance of the soul and spirit is the command and prohibition, and its two pans are promise and threat. ²⁸⁶ The balance of the heart and intellect is faith and tawhid ²⁸⁷, and its two pans are reward and punishment. The balance of knowledge and the secret is contentment and displeasure, and its two pans are flight and seeking. So whoever weighs the actions of the soul and spirit with the balance of command and prohibition, with the two pans of promise and threat, attains degrees in the Gardens. Whoever weighs the movement of the intellect and heart with the balance of faith and tawhid, with the two pans of reward and punishment, hits the degrees and is saved from all hardships. Whoever weighs the thoughts of knowledge and the secret with the balance of contentment and displeasure, with the two pans of flight and seeking, is saved from that from which he fled and reaches what he sought, so his life in this world becomes one of flight, his departure from it one of seeking, and his end is to the utmost joy. So whoever desires to reach the Causer must flee from the cause, for the cause is a veil for everyone who seeks. Its author—may God treat him with His pardon and forgiveness, bring him near to Him with the nearness of the beloved, and make him among the elite of His friends and the companions of His presence—said: When I reached this noble station in this subtle approach, a luminous manifestation and a lordly inspiration shone upon me concerning the meaning of His saying, exalted be He: “And establish weight with justice and do not diminish the balance.” So I looked ²⁸⁸ at the human world and the physical temple and found it in the form of a balance, having two pans, a beam, and a tongue. That is because his head is like the tongue, his hands like the two pans by which increase and decrease occur, and his body like the beam that carries the balance and by which weights are straightened. Then I reflected on his seven limbs and found that each limb has a balance. The two hands have an outward and inward balance by which they weigh what occurs in them according to what the Law and Reality require. The outward is what they do by themselves and directly handle with their palms; the inward is what is brought to them and befalls them. The two feet likewise, the two eyes, the two ears, the belly likewise, the private parts, the tongue, and so on for all the senses. When I reflected on their affair and tested the sources of their good and evil, the motives of their secret and open, I found them as subjects with a king who rules over them with equity and manages their affairs in secret and public, and that is the heart, for it is the house of the Lord, the throne of nearness and proximity, and the pivot of these

The senses are under his command, and the reference of all of them is to him, as indicated by his saying, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: "Verily, in the body there is a lump of flesh; if it is sound, the whole body is sound; if it is corrupt, the whole body is corrupt. Verily, it is the heart." Then He placed in this house the throne of honor and sovereignty, and seated upon it a king called Faith, and dispatched the limbs in his service like servants. The tongue said: "I am the interpreter." The two eyes said: "We are the guards." The two ears said: "We are the spies." The two feet said: "We are the runners." The two hands said: "We are the workers." The two angels said: "We are the witnesses." The master of the register said: "As you judge, you shall be judged." Then He appointed for him a vizier, which is the intellect. The vizier said: "O king, you must have a retinue, and select them for yourself as a special group. The first thing you need is a crown, which is guardianship ²⁸⁹; a ladder, which is divine care ²⁹⁰; a guide, which is guidance; a mount, which is truthfulness; a dwelling, which is tranquility; a chamberlain, which is knowledge; a gatekeeper, which is piety; a cupbearer, which is truth; a scribe, which is watchfulness ²⁹¹; a prison, which is fear; a lamp, which is wisdom; a companion, which is reflection; a treasury, which is certainty; a treasure, which is contentment; and a friend, which is discernment ²⁹². Then, O king, look upon your subjects with mercy, open for them the treasuries of grace, deal justly with them in distribution, and send to each one his portion, by which he may establish his mark and guard his body." Then he said: "And you, look after the subjects, remove from them doubt, and undertake the distribution of the stipends ²⁹³." The two hands said: "We are over all the tools." The teeth said: "We grind and separate the bran." The saliva said: "I knead and send it to the stomach." The stomach said: "I cook and ask no wages for that." The liver said: "I take what is pure and leave the dregs." The power ²⁹⁴ said: "I undertake its distribution and division with justice. So send to each limb what it can bear." When it distributed the stipends in cash without delay, and the king rectified his affairs, the vizier said to him: "After expenditure, there is only the presentation ²⁹⁵ and the performance of obligations. So proclaim among your army, lengthwise and breadthwise, that some may warn others, before the earth is changed to other than the earth." So his herald proclaimed: "O company of subjects, the king has sworn by divinity that whoever deviates from the straight path, disbelieves in the gift of grace, and spends it in sin, has corrupted the intention and broken the structure. Those are the worst of creatures." And that the king has an enemy who has taken up residence in his limbs, and has taken possession of his pastures and playgrounds, called the commanding soul ²⁹⁶. It contends with him for authority, and seeks help against him through the deceitful world. Satan came and wrote for them the charter of vizierate, and they have spread devastation in the land of the kingdom. So, O horses of Allah, ride, and do not flee from the enemies! Then the heart rode between the left flank of its fear and the right flank of its hope, the vanguard of its trust and the rearguard of its salvation, bearing the burdens of "You alone we worship" and clinging to the hems of "You alone we ask for help." When it arrived with its troops at its Worshipped One, its herald proclaimed in its assembly: "Allah is testing you with the river of the base world. Whoever drinks from it is not of me, and whoever relies on it, let him blame me." The people of necessity said: "The fan of relief has come with the permission: 'Except whoever scoops a scoop with his hand.'" As for those who lacked discernment, they fell into the snare of temptation, so they drank and quenched themselves until it caused them gluttony. When the people confronted them, they said: "We have no strength today." But those who had patience, seeking the face of their Lord, said: "How often has a small group overcome a large group by Allah's permission, and Allah is with the patient." So the two met with their armies at the confluence of their two seas: "This is fresh, sweet, and this is salty, bitter." Trust was entrusted against greed, asceticism kept away from the world, humility repelled vanity, sincerity erased hypocrisy, and piety negated false claims, glorification, and sanctification, in the war against Iblis. Then the party of Allah advanced, their slogan: "O Allah, in You we believe, so make firm our feet, for we do not know what is before us." "And He will grant them victory by His permission." And they were victorious, and victory is only from Allah. None turned back except one who fled, and whose life was cut short. The abodes of desire and the soul became empty, as if they had not flourished yesterday. The sun ²⁹⁷ continued in its affair until it acknowledged its loss and was characterized by its pride. Then the One to whom belongs the favor called out: "O soul at peace, return to your Lord, well-pleased and well-pleasing." Concerning this, the poet says: "O soul, repent today before you are disgraced tomorrow among the servants. And oppose, O soul, the rule of desire, and strive in Allah with true striving. Put on the armor of piety and be patient, and persevere in the war against the people of obstinacy. O soul, Allah has bought from you, on condition of surrendering all reins. So rejoice in the sale and submit, and reform, O soul, your corruption. You have become bankrupt, and the commodity is undervalued; do not buy when the market is stagnant. The caravan has set out earnestly, and the face of the heart only increases in blackness. O my shame, O my regret, if I am deprived of the goal among my companions." "And the earth He laid out for the creatures"—that is, the cradle of the earth of the hearts of His saints, His chosen ones, His beloved, His pious, and His noble ones, so that there may reach it from the blessing of His beloved and His prophetic secret, and the flow of his support and his chosen grace, what revives its gardens and orchards, and what makes its breezes and basil fragrant. Then its buds open with the subtle sciences and divine wisdoms, and its fruits flourish with the precise understandings of bestowed knowledge and the eternal openings, which are the sustenance of the souls of the seekers, the healing of the hearts of the enraptured, the cure for the diseases of the infatuated, the medicine for the fickle, the light of the secrets of the worshippers, the support of the forms of the night-praying, the path of the righteous guides, the mark of the beloved adherents, and the mainstay of the people of truth.

The intimate attendants ²⁹⁸ who are brought near, and the mention of the monks who are secluded, and the intimacy of solitary individuals who are estranged. God—glorified be He—has made them gardens of His intimacy, meadows of His sanctity, fruits of His knowledge, flowers of His love, and trees of His wisdom. They pluck from them the fruits of gnosis at every moment, and gather from them the blossoms of subtle truths at every time. Their roots are firmly established in the courtyards of the Muhammadan mystery ²⁹⁹, and their branches tower in the sky of the Ahmadine beauty ³⁰⁰. This is the meaning of His words: "In them are fruit and palm trees with sheaths, and grain with husk and fragrant herb" ³⁰¹—that is, possessing colors and various beautiful kinds. "They are watered with one water, and We prefer some of them over others in eating" ³⁰². Each one plucks according to the height of his aspiration, the greatness of his rank, the closeness of his sainthood, and the perfection of his care, because they were created from the Ahmadine mystery, which is the link between existence and non-existence, the intended essence before the delineation of Adam's form, and the cause for the existence of everyone who came later or earlier. He is the manifest in the manifestations, the foremost in the individuations, where there is no existence, no non-existence, no Throne, no Footstool, no Tablet, no Pen, no revelation, no reception, no House, no Sanctuary. He is the comprehensive Word, the luminous Pearl, the radiant Sun ³⁰³ that rises, the copy of the universe, and everything in the universe is a part of him, yet he is not a part of any one thing in the universe. He is the vicegerent over this divine kingdom and the encompassing cycle of knowledge. He was only brought into existence and delayed so that he might be an actual imam in reality, not merely by potentiality and power. When his essence came into existence, he existed only as a protected prophet and a considered sovereign. Then deputies were appointed for him, since the creation of his luminous purified body and his prophetic illuminated body was delayed. The first deputy and vicegerent for him was Adam, peace be upon him. Then offspring were born to him, and the lineage continued. In every age, noble trustees and great prophetic deputies were appointed, until the time came for the creation of his outward Muhammadan body and the manifestation of his perfect Ahmadine form. Then he appeared like the dazzling sun and the radiant shining countenance. Every light was absorbed into his brilliant light, every judgment was subsumed under his comprehensive sublime judgment, all laws submitted to him, his sovereignty that had been hidden became manifest, and his law that had lain concealed in the secret recesses became famous. He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden ³⁰⁴. He was given the comprehensive words ³⁰⁵, and he said, informing about his Lord: "He placed His hand between my shoulders, and I felt the coolness of His fingertips, and I knew the knowledge of the first and the last" ³⁰⁶. Thus he attained that beautiful divine character and the perfect divine lineage derived from His words—exalted is He—about Himself: "He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden" ³⁰⁷, among His names mentioned in Sura al-Hadid, which contains severe might and benefits for people. Likewise, he—peace and blessings be upon him—was sent with the sword and sent as a mercy to the worlds. He was also called the Kind, the Merciful, the Pardoner, the Forbearing, the High, the Great, the Aware, the Knowing, the Mighty, the Compeller, the Hearing, the Seeing, the Truth, the Patron, the Self-Sufficient, the Appreciative, the Sufficient, the Strong, the Peace, the Holy, the Glorious, the Guide, the One, the Existing, the Giver of Life, the Guardian, the Trustee, the Generous. This is because of his closeness to Him, his honor with Him, the elevation of his rank, and the highness of his station before Him. He named him with His noble and majestic names, created him with His sublime and beautiful attributes, and singled him out for this above all His beloved and noble ones, and honored him with them above all His prophets and the elite of His chosen ones. "And He created man" ³⁰⁸—meaning Adam, the father of physical forms and the leader of spirits—"from clay" ³⁰⁹, i.e., from dry clay that makes a sound due to the weight of what he bore of the burdens of the authority of the divine kingdom, the very power of lordly majesty, the secret of the speciality of the merciful gaze, and the trustee of the divine kingdom, because he was the locus of manifestation of the lights of the One, Singular Essence, and because God created him in His merciful form, as the Lawgiver—peace and blessings be upon him—informed in his saying: "God created Adam in the form of the Merciful" ³¹⁰. And when He deposited in him the light of the bride of the sovereign presence and the splendor of the luminous creations of God, the sound of his light in his back was heard like the chirping of birds ³¹¹. Our master alluded to the excellence of that clay from which Adam, the father of humanity, was created, saying: "Indeed, I am creating a mortal from clay" ³¹². And I know the measure of that clay which was kneaded with the light of might and empowerment, cooked in the glass vessels of sovereignty and determination, and built with the water of Tasnim ³¹³ and the pure nectar of Kawthar ³¹⁴. From this, one knows the superiority of Adam over all other worlds, because his spirit was created before their spirits, since his spirit was formed before the manifestation of the Self-disclosure of the Truth to all essences. He bestowed upon it the garment of His lordship and clothed it with the robe of the might of His eternity, so it became a mirror through which He manifests to the worlds, and a locus in which He appears to the spirits of the prophets and messengers, when there shone upon it the radiance of the suns of the lights of the Muhammadan message and the rising places of the gleaming secrets of the Ahmadine prophethood. If the angels had been in this station, they would have been with him in the state of being and would have been included with him in the brilliance of the lightning of divinity. He—exalted is He—said: "And I breathed into him of My spirit" ³¹⁵—that is, I gave him life with My life, and I adorned his essence with the lights of My attributes that appeared from the Self-disclosure of My majesty and beauty, and issued from the light of My splendor and perfection. "So prostrate to him" ³¹⁶, because he is the qibla ³¹⁷ of the lights of My might and grandeur, the locus of the Self-disclosure of My Essence, My attributes, and My names, the very essence of My beloved and noble ones, and My vicegerent in My earth and My heaven. When the angels saw those holy attributes and witnessed what shone upon him of the lights of the sanctified majesty, they prostrated to him, because the Truth showed them his Adamic essence illuminated with the light of the Ahmadine reality, formed in the image of the Muhammadan subtlety. For the spiritual spirits and the holy worlds witnessed his noble form engraved in the interior of the hylic matter of the unseen physical forms and the materials of the structures of the Thronal spirits. So they pledged allegiance to that Adamic reality, the subtle chosen prophetic jewel, the ruby of the kingdom of mercy, the emerald of the holy realm of power, the pearl hidden between the protection of Kaf and Nun ³¹⁸, the subtlety of the subtleties of the hidden secret, the preface to the conclusion of "Be, and it is" ³¹⁹, indicating the perfection of his honor and his sovereignty over all other than the Truth, as has been reported: "Were it not for you, O Muhammad, I would not have created the heavens, nor the earth, nor Paradise, nor Hell" ³²⁰.

"Allah chooses messengers from among the angels and from among mankind." ³²¹ "These messengers We have favored some of them above others." ³²² "O mankind, there has come to you a proof from your Lord, and We have sent down to you a manifest light." ³²³ "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the parable of His light..." ³²⁴ "...is as a niche wherein is a lamp." ³²⁵ The Muhammadan ³²⁶ likeness of his light, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is that of a lamp, for nothing was closer to him than that image—the Muhammadan form and the pure, chosen creature. Also, the prostration of the angels to him, peace be upon him, was a manifestation of honor through the appearance of the smiling countenance of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. ³²⁷ That is because the head of Adam, peace be upon him, is a mim, his hands are a ha, his navel is a mim, and his feet are a dal; thus it was written in the ancient script: Muhammad. The other hand did not appear so that it would be right and left, like this: "Muhammad" ³²⁸, because the first is greater in praise, for he, peace be upon him, could see from behind as he saw from in front, so the left of creation becomes right for him; therefore the face is specific to him, peace be upon him. Hence some knowers said: The left hand of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is not called left, but rather the first right and the second right, or the right of his face and the right of his back. Here is a wondrous subtlety: the number of the three hundred messengers emerges from the number of the letters of his name Muhammad. The first mim, when you pronounce it, consists of three letters; the ha is two letters, and the hamza is dropped because it is an alif; the two merged mims are likewise six letters; the dal is three. If you count all the letters of his name, both apparent and hidden, the total number is three hundred and thirteen, the number of the messengers close to him, peace be upon him, who combine prophethood. One remains from the number, which is for the station of sainthood, distributed among all the saints who follow the prophets, peace be upon them, and it belongs to him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace—so understand. He, peace be upon him, is the master of the world, the first to appear in existence among those who came later or earlier. So consider, O intelligent one, the difference between the clay from which Adam, peace be upon him, was created and the fire from which Iblis the accursed was created—the superiority and disparity in secrets and benefits, the divergence and opposition in the conditions that necessitate the causes of happiness and obstacles. For He, exalted, said: "And He created the jinn from a smokeless flame of fire." ³²⁹ That is, the jinn concealed by the veil of heedlessness, pelted with meteors of isolation, prevented from the heaven of proximity and union, distanced from the descent of the clouds of mercy, whose insight is obliterated from gratitude for blessings, swimming in the seas of affliction and vengeance, prevented from smelling the fragrant breezes of joy and wisdom, "from a smokeless flame of fire"—that is, from the yellow, red, and green flame that rises above fire when it blazes. It is said it is the serpent of fire that is in its tongue when it flames, in its essence when it is kindled, and in its smoke when it is ignited. Despite that, Iblis said: "I am better than him; You created me from fire and created him from clay." ³³⁰ He did not consider, with his eye of stupidity and insight of misery, the power of water with which the clay of Adam was watered, for it is stronger than his fiery, smokeless element, which contains the demand for domination, arrogance, and might. This is the cause that made him arrogant about prostrating to Adam when Allah, mighty and majestic, commanded him to do so, thinking that the power of fire is higher in rank. This led him to say: "I am better than him; You created me from fire and created him from clay." He did not know that the power of water from which Adam was created is stronger than it, and that it extinguishes it, and that earth is more stable due to cold and dryness. ³³¹ Thus Adam has strength and stability by virtue of clay, and was thereby given humility by nature, while the jinn was given arrogance by nature due to fieriness. The element of water is stronger than the element of fire, as reported in the hadith of Anas from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: "The angels said: 'O Lord, have You created anything worse than fire?' He said: 'Yes.' Then they said: 'O Lord, have You created anything worse than water?' He said: 'Yes, the air.' Then they said: 'O Lord, have You created anything worse than air?' He said: 'Yes, the son of Adam.'" ³³² And He said: "And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord." ³³³ And He said: "From it We created you, and into it We will return you." ³³⁴ Especially what He, exalted, honored it with—the inclusion of the limbs of the Master of Messengers, the Beloved of the Lord of the Worlds, and the visitation of the angels brought near to his noble grave and his lofty, exalted station. He magnified it with His Sacred House as He magnified it with His three mosques: the Aqsa Mosque, the Mosque of Mecca, and his Prophetic Mosque, peace be upon him. As for fire, He only mentioned it in contexts of intimidation and threat, places of rebuke, reprimand, and warning. He said: "And fear the Fire whose fuel is people and stones." ³³⁵ "And fear the Fire which has been prepared for the disbelievers." ³³⁶ And other such verses. Even if the fire were of red gold, its dust of fragrant musk, its chambers and palaces of ruby and green emerald, its trees of pearl and red coral, its flowers of silver and brilliant gold, its rivers of wine, pure honey, and purest milk, souls would still flee from its roar, flame, blaze, heat, cold, and chill. We ask Allah, exalted, not to assign us, our children, our brothers, and our loved ones any share in it, to forbid our bodies from it, and not to disfigure our creation with its punishment and the fire of His wrath. Amen, amen. ³³⁷ So what expectation, O my Master, of one who returns disappointed? Nor does the one who returns and seeks refuge with You come back a loser. He comes to You calling out: "By the rank of Muhammad!" And You are Generous, whose reach is not limited. For I, in my distance and nearness, am your companion and your praiser in every gathering and assembly.

So be for me, from among us, a refuge from the world, a helper and supporter against any oppressor or traitor. And if on the Day of Gathering the standing place becomes straitened for people, say: 'Fear not, My servant, for you are My neighbor.' And be righteous and honor those who are close to us for our sake, when it is said: 'Arise, intercede for the people of major sins.' For we have no treasure on the Day of Threat; rather, Your Face, the hoped-for, is the best of treasures. So the hopeful have not succeeded in seeking wealth besides You, nor does any hopeful besides You succeed. And may God bless you as long as thunder moans and lightning shines in the depths of darkness, a blessing that rivals the sun in light and loftiness and surpasses the fragrance of incense burners. Its beginning from pre-eternity is continuous until the eternity of eternities, O best of the last. It is specific to You, O Unique of Existence, and traces back to Your noble, generous, and pure elements. Then know—may God grant success to me and to you—that discourse concerning this noble, exalted, and lofty clay ³³⁸, which God created from the cream of His divine secrets and the rays of His holy, Mawlawi ³³⁹ lights, and into which He breathed from His essential Spirit, and made it the origin of the human creation, has led us to a splendid and noble source, a superior and subtle origin, at the beginning of the creation of our master Adam, peace be upon him, and what shone in his clay from the light of the full moon and the seed of all mankind. For the sake of that Muhammadan light ³⁴⁰ deposited in his body, the noble angels prostrated. And this noble source contains superior and glorious secrets, sublime and beautiful subtleties, which none comprehend except the knowers, the people of clear victory ³⁴¹, and none attain the secret of its subtle meaning except the people of speciality and firm establishment. That is because when God, glorified be He, created the cosmos and all beings, all the higher and lower worlds, from the Throne to the earth—layering the Throne above the Footstool, and the Footstool above the seven heavens, while the Footstool encompasses the heavens, and He placed some above others—there manifested from the overwhelming power of His majesty, the awe of His eternity, and the perfection of His might, that He sent the 'Istiwā' ³⁴² upon the Throne, so the Footstool trembled, then the heavens descended, and the heavens sweated from the weight of the Footstool, and the Footstool sweated from the weight of the Throne, and the Throne sweated from the weight of the overwhelming force of the Istiwā'. Then all their sweat flowed and became seas, and the seas entered between the heavens, and they clashed with each other from the awe of the might of Eternity and the assault of Majesty, whose lights had preceded in all the atoms of the cosmos. Their clashing increased until they cast forth the purest of their foam, and that foam—which is the realities of the sweat of existence that issued from the light of Istiwā', and which carries the secret of Theophany—dried up. Then the seas entered and became like dry foam from the intensity of the motion of the cosmic labor. Then it spread out and manifested its realities, and the days passed over it, which had been covenanted with the passage of the lights of the Theophany of Attributes and Essence upon it. When the Truth nurtured it with varieties of the Theophany of His Attributes and Essence, He took a handful from it with the grasp of His Omnipotence, and cast it above His Kingdom. That handful was from the purest of that foam kneaded with the ingredients of the lights of the Attributes. Then He rained upon it the downpour of the sea of Divinity, fermented it with the hands of Might, formed it with the engravings of the Seal of Sovereignty, and cast it into the valley of Power between the expanse of Eternity and endless duration, until the morning of the rising suns of the Essence and moons of the Attributes shone. Then He removed the veil of Jealousy from the face of the Spirit which He had created a thousand years before its form, and which was in the veils of Intimacy and the seas of Holiness. He brought it forth from the place of the hidden sciences and the secret of eternal secrets, depicting for it the engraving of its form, and inserted it into it. Thus the spirit and the form became perfect with the perfection of the Essence and Attributes. When Adam became the locus of the secrets of the Essence and Attributes, the Beloved of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, described him with his saying: 'God created Adam in His image.' And he, peace be upon him, was the mine of holy spirits and human spirits. When God, glorified be He, willed to create his progeny, He moved him with His power, cast upon him a sleep from His majesty, and brought forth Eve from his rib. Then He moved them both with the secret of His secret, and that secret was their desire, which, through the manifestation of the attributes of Majesty and Beauty, caused the union of desire with desire. And there split forth the pure sperm, which had been formed from the secrets of the Theophany of Istiwā', and He preserved it in the emergence of the act, and turned it in the abundance of Theophany and the days of descent, and the hours of unveiling of the Kingdom, the Omnipotence, the Sovereignty, and the Power. Then He manifested to it in the determinations of the womb of the act with awe and might, so it became colored with the color of the beauty of the act, which is the mirror of the Theophany of Beauty. And that is His saying, glorified be He: 'Then We made him a drop in a secure resting place; then We created the drop into a clot.' When He melted it in the furnace of love with the breath of affection, and dyed it with the dye of friendship, He forged it in the crucible of primordial nature into gold engraved with the engravings of the Seal of Sovereignty, and cast it into the rising place of the unveiling of the suns of Lordship, until it ripened with the fires of love and became an ingot through the subtlety of Theophany. This is the meaning of His saying: 'Then We created the clot into a lump.' Then He made it channels of the seas of nature, and made its canals the veins of the drinking places of primordial nature. Then, through its dominance, the planting of the Truth in it moved the trees of His act, until its structure settled upon the pillar of His power. This is the meaning of His saying: 'Then We created the lump into bones.' Then He created it a creation from the hand of the outpouring of gaze in the time of nurture with His saying: 'Then We clothed the bones with flesh.' Then He left it in the light of His act and the radiance of the Theophany of His power, so that its preparedness might be perfected to receive the engraving of the King. Then He engraved it with the engraving of the secret of knowledge in the form of Adam, then adorned its face with the adornment of the light of His beauty, formed it with the form of the spirit of His act, perfected it with His mercy, made its heart the gathering place of moral qualities, its liver the gathering place of natural temperaments, and its brain illuminated with the light of the dawn of innate intellect. When He clothed it with the light of His creation, perfected it with His power, and inserted His spirit into it, it became a second Adam, the locus of the treasures of His Lordship and the realities of His power and knowledge. This is the meaning of His saying: 'Then We produced him as another creation.' Then He, glorified be He, declared Himself transcendent above similarity, temporality, and variation through variation of time and place with His saying: 'So blessed be God, the best of creators.' How beautiful is His craftsmanship, blessed and exalted be He, and His power, when He made Adam a world, and gathered in Adam all the world, and gathered in His Beloved Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, what is in Adam and in all the world, and made him a mercy to all the worlds. So He, exalted be He, said: 'And We have not sent you except as a mercy to the worlds.' Then there also flashed for me from the lightning of this noble verse a shining flash, and I smelled from the fragrance of its lofty meanings the most pleasant scent, and it is His saying, exalted be He: 'He created man from clay like pottery.'

That is, from clay protected by the secret of eternal power, specified by the specification of the divine will, perfected by the secret of lordly wisdom, regarded with the eye of providential care, surrounded ³⁴³ by the honor of eternal felicity, magnified by the majesty of the first precedents, for in the creation of man from that clay there is a strange secret and a wondrous symbol. For when the clay is hollowed out, dried, and tapped, it sounds with melodies of delight, and the masters of spiritual states understand from it melodies that are sweet in the ears and pleasant. Likewise, the case of a vessel of perfect workmanship: when you tap it, it produces a beautiful sound and a plaintive tone, causing weeping and groaning in yearning hearts, and affecting the passionate innermost parts with tenderness, softness, and gentleness. Its melodies stir longing for the abodes of intimacy and remind of the stations of nearness and proximity. This is because the spiritual souls and the pure luminous bodies, whenever they hear beautiful sounds and melodies of exquisite meaning and perfection, yearn for their first nest and listen to what was inscribed for them on the day of "Am I not" in the revealed book. They are attracted as iron is attracted to a magnetic stone, and this becomes for them a sincere influx from which they hear the secret of the address and receive the subtle answer and the reality of the news. Then they become absent in the manifestations of theophanies, dance for the lights of the Names and Attributes that shine upon them, rejoice in the breezes of divine breaths and attractions that blow upon them, speak of what dwells in their conscience, and express what has hidden their identity in stillness. This is supported by what has been narrated: that hearing the address from the Unseen attracts souls, as has come in the tradition ³⁴⁴ that Azrael, peace be upon him, descends upon the believer to extract the soul from the body, and even if he pulled it with a thousand chains, it would not come out. Then Allah Almighty says to him: "Leave it, for it will not come out except by hearing." So He calls it: "O tranquil soul!" [89:27] and it comes out flying from the sweetness of the address, and it continues flying until the Day of Resurrection. Then it is said to it: "Return to your Lord" [89:28], meaning to your body. So it rejoices in the body and the body rejoices in it, and it says: "I have found no rest," and the body says: "The worms and dust have consumed me." Then a caller calls out: "After this reunion, there is no separation." And an angel comes to him and says: "Rejoice, for whenever your bones decay, your sins are erased." Likewise, the subjugation of the mountains to glorify with David, peace be upon him, at evening and sunrise, in His saying: "Indeed, We subjected the mountains to glorify with him at evening and sunrise, and the birds gathered" [38:18-19]. This is because when David's melodies reached them from his loving soul, they sang with the melodies of love from the branches of the rose of beauty and majesty, moved by the pleasure of hearing David's voice and his glorification and sanctification, and they joined David in remembrance and glorification. Likewise, the birds, when they heard the sounds of his power, whistled with the whistle of sanctification and holiness from the ecstasy of David's sweetness and the perception of the spirit of the kingdom, for they are sanctified, created with the capacity to receive the lights of the specific act and the forms of spiritualities. In them are crop-sacs of love and knowledge, like the hoopoe, the nightingale, the bulbul, the turtle dove, and the pigeon. He, peace be upon him, ³⁴⁵ knew their sounds in terms of love and passion. Do you not see how he recited: "Many a cooing ringdove in the forenoon, full of yearning, singing on a branch; my weeping sometimes makes her sleepless, and her weeping sometimes makes me sleepless. When she complains, I do not understand her, nor does she understand me, except that I know her by passion, and she also knows me by passion. She mentioned a beloved and a righteous time, so she wept in grief and stirred my grief." The particularity of the mention of evening and sunrise is due to the increased manifestation of the lights of His eternal power and the traces of the blessing of His great majesty. The time of forenoon is the time of the courtyard of the intoxicated from the hangover of witnessing the praised stations, and the time of evening is the time of the approach of those who draw near to the scenes of blessed intimate conversation, the perception of the lights of visions, and the hearing of sweet addresses. It is narrated that when David, peace be upon him, was sincere in his glorification of his Lord, Allah made inanimate objects join him in his glorification and help him in his worship of his Lord. Since the matter is so, and the loving souls are moved and delighted by hearing what is there, the gnostic has the springs of divine wisdom gush forth within him, and every vessel exudes what it contains. "And you see the mountains, thinking them motionless, while they pass like clouds—the handiwork of Allah, who has perfected all things. Indeed, He is Aware of what you do" [27:88].

And for the saints (al-awliyā’) in that are beautiful stations (manāzi‘ ḥisān) and radiant insights (shawāriq ‘irfān), and unveilings of witnessing (kawāshif mushāhadah) and direct vision (‘iyān). They derive them from the speech of birds (manāṭiq al-aṭyār), the sounds of vessels (aṣwāt al-awānī), and the melodies of strings (naghamāt al-awtār), just as it is related that Abū al-Faḍl al-Jawharī spent the night with people of ailments (aṣḥāb ‘ilāt) beside him, who occupied him from his devotional recitation (wird). When morning came, he said in his gathering: “Last night, a people spent the night beside us who filled our ears with knowledge and wisdom.” One of them said: “For me, for me (lī lī),” and another said: “And for you, for me and for you (wa laka, lī wa laka),” and he elaborated on that until he concluded the gathering with various kinds of wisdom. Similar to that is what is related about the saint (al-walī), the learned scholar, the righteous, the pious, the gnostic (al-‘ārif), the sincere advisor, possessor of lordly states (al-aḥwāl al-rabbāniyyah) and divine, eternal influxes (al-wāridāt al-ilāhiyyah al-ṣamadāniyyah), our master the grandfather, Abū ‘Abd Allāh Sayyidī Muḥammad al-Mu‘ṭī ibn ‘Abd al-Khāliq—may Allah sanctify his secret, elevate his rank among the saints, and spread his remembrance in the gardens of the celestial dominion (ḥaẓā’ir al-malakūt). He was abundant in love for Allah, perpetually absent (dā’im al-ghaybah) in the lights of Allah’s beauty, and immersed in thought over the descriptions of Allah’s perfections. He said: “One day I met in the great market of the Marrakesh court the renowned scholar, the great saintly gnostic, Abū ‘Abd Allāh Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn Sa‘īd al-Marghatī—may Allah be pleased with him and grant him contentment, and settle him in the spacious heights of Paradise—while he was seeking a barber to shave his head. He began speaking with a shopkeeper there, and nearby was a man whistling on a reed flute (zummārah) and playing it. After we had left the shopkeeper, he said to me: ‘Did you hear what that reed flute was saying?’ I replied: ‘Yes, Master of masters (mawlā al-mawālī), Master of masters.’” And he mentioned from the full transmission of this story that this saintly gnostic of Allah (al-walī al-‘ārif bi-llāh) derived from hearing this utterance a tremendous state (ḥāl ‘aẓīmah), through which he ascended from the station of his sobriety (ṣaḥw) to his effacement (maḥw). He cried out and moaned, struck unconscious and fainting, and at that moment he became absent from the station of his senses. He did not recover until after a time, returning to the station of rootedness and firm establishment (al-rusūkh wa al-tamkīn). Such is the way of the gnostics among the saints (al-awliyā’ al-‘ārifīn), and the perfect, sincere lovers (al-muḥibbīn al-kāmilīn al-ṣādiqīn), due to their absence in the Creator (al-mukawwin) from the created beings (al-akwān), and because they understand the secret of discourse (sirr al-khiṭāb) from melodious sounds and beautiful tunes. I said: This pure saint (al-walī al-ṣafī) was a learned, practicing, pure, virtuous scholar, a perfect pole (quṭb kāmil), standing firm on Allah’s limits, preserving adherence to Allah’s Sunnah, pious, ascetic, devout, and worshipful—as described by the eminent scholar, Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Fāsī in his book *al-A‘lām bi-man Maḍā wa Ghabar fī Ahl al-Qarn al-Ḥādī ‘Ashar*. He had with Allah a great solicitude (‘ināyah kabīrah) and a famously strong love for the side of the Messenger of Allah (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam). This is supported by what was found recorded in his own handwriting in a composition of his, in which he mentioned over seventy-two sciences. He began and returned in it, excelled in its composition and perfected it, and alerted in it to many sciences, benefiting thereby. Among that is that when he mentioned the transmitted ḥadīth concerning our master Ja‘far and our master Ḥamzah: “When they met the Prophet (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) in a dream, he said to them: ‘O Ḥamzah and O Ja‘far, have you found the best of deeds?’ They said: ‘There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah.’ He said to them: ‘Then what?’ They said to him: ‘Blessings upon you, O Messenger of Allah.’ He said to them: ‘Then what?’ They said to him: ‘Love of Abū Bakr and ‘Umar.’” The ḥadīth. And he mentioned the reason for Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān’s compilation of *Dalā’il al-Khayrāt*, which is that he passed by a woman in Fez and found her flying in the air of the sky. He said to her: “By what did you attain this station?” She replied: “By abundant blessings upon the Prophet (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam).” He said after that: “I said, and the state of this woman reminded me of what I saw on Friday night in a dream, while I was holding *Shifā’ ‘Iyāḍ* before me. Suddenly, I was commanded to enter Paradise without reckoning. I thought of my brothers and my wife—how could I leave them behind? So Allah caused intercession for them to flow upon my heart, or He granted me intercession for them. I wrote in the margin of the book that Allah should join them with me. Then there was a woman who was granted permission for the same as was granted to me. I asked about her state, and it was said to me: ‘By abundant blessings upon the Prophet (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam).’” End. And likewise what is related about him concerning his maidservant when he wanted to discipline her, and she honored him by [mentioning] the Prophet (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam). When he heard that from her, he struck her only one or two blows, then freed her for that, due to her honoring the Prophet (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam), out of veneration for his noble station and exaltation of his lofty, exalted, and sublime rank. He has a high station in the path of the folk (ṭarīq al-qawm), and a noble, elevated rank, which he received from the great imams and renowned eminent figures, through chains of transmission (asānīd) of various types, indicating complete adherence. Among that is the path of al-Khaḍir (al-ṭarīq al-Khaḍiriyyah), which he received from his shaykh Abū al-‘Abbās Sayyid Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Marrākushī, from our master al-Khaḍir—as mentioned by the eminent, deeply learned, insightful, and understanding scholar, Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Fāsī, in his famous *Fihrist*. Among them is the Prophetic handshake (al-muṣāfaḥah al-nabawiyyah), the noble, chosen, and exalted one. In it, he found in his own noble handwriting the following text: “From the grace of Allah Most High and His immense gifts—to Him be praise and to Him be thanks—that between my palm and the palm of al-Muṣṭafā, our Prophet, our Master, and our Liege Lord Muḥammad (ṣallā Allāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam), there are twenty palms, no more.”

Indeed, the eminent, the eminent, the Sufi shaykh, Abu Muhammad, my master Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Margiti, shook my hand in the presence of Marrakesh. He said: The imam, the hadith master, our shaykh Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Hasani shook my hand. He said: The shaykh Abu al-'Abbas al-Manjur al-Fasi shook my hand. He said: Our shaykh Zayn al-Din Abu Zayd 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Ali ibn Saqin shook my hand. He said: The shaykh of Islam Abu Yahya Zakariyya al-Ansari al-Shafi'i shook my hand. He said: The imam Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Hajar shook my hand. He said: Al-Zayn al-'Iraqi shook my hand, and the shaykh Ridwan al-Mustamli shook my hand. He said: Al-Sharaf Abu al-Tahir al-Raba'i shook our hands. He said: Abu Ishaq al-Qutbi shook my hand while I was with al-Raba'i. He said: Al-Najib Abu 'Abd Allah al-Khuli shook my hand. He said: Abu al-Majd al-Qazwini shook my hand. He said: The judge Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Abi Zur'a shook my hand. He said: Abu Mansur 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd Allah al-Barazi shook my hand. He said: Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Najid ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Baghawi shook my hand there. He said: Abu al-Qasim 'Abd ibn Humayd ibn 'Abdan al-Manbiji shook my hand in Aleppo. He said: 'Umar ibn Sa'id ibn Sinan al-Manbiji shook my hand. He said: Ahmad ibn Dahqan shook my hand. He said: Khalaf ibn Tamim shook my hand. He said: We entered upon Harmaz to visit him, and he shook our hands. And he said: We entered upon Anas ibn Malik, may God be pleased with him, to visit him, and he shook our hands. And he said: I shook with this hand of mine the hand of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. I have never touched silk or brocade softer than his hand, may God bless him and grant him peace. And he has lofty speech concerning the path of the folk ³⁴⁶, bearing witness to his drinking from the springs of gnosis ³⁴⁷ and his precedence in the assemblies of the people of witnessing and direct vision ³⁴⁸. Among that is what he wrote addressing some of the people of his time, and its text: We have reached in our recitation during the connected ³⁴⁹, and we have come to overlook, in our journey, the stations of opening and arrival ³⁵⁰. May God connect us with the connection of success and light, and illuminate our insights with the lights of right guidance and verification ³⁵¹, so that you may know the defined by the tool of definition, transcendent beyond the perceptions of illusion and anthropomorphism ³⁵², and may He bestow upon us the breezes of guidance through the shining suns of the beginning ³⁵³, so that we may witness the Agent in existence, and know His Oneness in withdrawal and generosity ³⁵⁴. Then nearness and distance occur, and ecstasy and loss, and annihilation and effacement, and intoxication and sobriety ³⁵⁵. Then the gnoses become established after the blowing of the winds ³⁵⁶, and the vicegerency and deputyship become deserved, and the call becomes realized in hitting the mark and response ³⁵⁷. {Say: This is my way; I invite to God with insight, I and those who follow me} ³⁵⁸, that is, with insight into knowledge of God and knowledge of that by which He is worshipped. And those who follow me invite to that, for the foot of the follower is upon the foot of the followed. And if the foot deviates from the foot, then he is repelled and rejected. In sum, his merits, may God be pleased with him, are great and many, his virtues are lofty and renowned, and his miracles are abundant and plentiful. If we were to pursue them, that would lead to prolixity and take us away from what we are engaged in in this book. Then we turn the reins to the intended meaning and return to the speech alluded to, the customary one. So I say: It has become clear to me from the state of this renowned saint ³⁵⁹ and the understanding of this great knower ³⁶⁰ what befits this station and serves as a witness to the implication of the meaning of this speech. That is that when a vessel is tapped, a sound is produced from it from which the masters of states and allusions, and of taste and expressions ³⁶¹, understand a delightful, subtle meaning and a superior, noble derivation, like the understanding of this saint of the whistling of the flute. Some of them understand from the tapping of strings the subtlety of delightful remembrances, and some know from the melodies of birds the fragrant breezes of answered supplications, and some understand from the sound of vessels when tapped the meaning of the opening letters of the surahs ³⁶² and the secrets of the sciences of the Qur'an, and some receive in their hearts what the tongue is incapable of, from the subtlety of descents and the shining of gnosis. That is because their holy spirits are yearning for what the hearing of the Truth is intended for in all times and seasons, yearning for what they witness of the secrets of the unseen in the worlds of individuals and all existents. So when they hear from the tapping of vessels a sound of 'tan tan tan', they understand with the ears of their hearing what is cast to them from their Lord of the secrets of theophanies and the gifts of beneficence, and they find relief in their state of attraction and the carpet of their nearness, through the flashes of inspirations and divine teachings and the unveilings of direct vision. So they understand from the letter 'ta' in 'tan', {Ta Ha. We have not sent down the Qur'an upon you to cause you distress, but only as a reminder for those who fear} ³⁶³, and they understand from the letter 'nun' what the Truth swore by concerning the creation of His great Prophet and noble Messenger in His saying: {Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe. You are not, by the grace of your Lord, a madman. And indeed for you is a reward never ending. And indeed you are of a great moral character} ³⁶⁴. So the first is among the people of absence ³⁶⁵ in the beauty of the Truth through the intermediary of the Ahmadian spirituality ³⁶⁶ which is necessary and indispensable for any elect or knower. He is the possessor of the first derivation in the Master of Masters. The second is the possessor of the derivation in {Ta Ha} and is among those absent in the beauty of the Muhammadan essence. For every station there is a discourse, and for the lovers in that there are stations, derivations, allusions, and states. It is said that the vessel is in the opinion of the letter 'ta', {Ta Sin. These are the verses of the Qur'an and a clear Book, a guidance and good tidings for the believers} ³⁶⁷. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have folded for you the carpet of Our might, and the 'nun' means: We have aided you with desire so that you may be a vicegerent in Our kingdom. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have purified you to prepare you for entering Our presence, and the 'nun' means: We have called you from the station of two bow-lengths or nearer ³⁶⁸ so that you may enjoy with your sight Our vision. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have perfumed you with the fragrant breezes of Our holiness, and the 'nun' means: We have made you roam in the gardens of Our intimacy. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have subjugated to you those on Our earth, and the 'nun' means: We have illuminated your heart with the lights of Our guidance and Our brilliance. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have perfumed you with the stamp of Our divinity, and the 'nun' means: We have awakened you so that you may know the truth of Our lordship. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have adorned you with the jewels of Our love, and the 'nun' means: We have handed you the cups of Our affection. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have embroidered for you the robe of Our glory, and the 'nun' means: We have exalted through you the precincts of Our dominion. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have disclosed to you the hidden of Our unseen, and the 'nun' means: We have caused you to alight at the highest stations of Our nearness. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have perfumed through you the assemblies of Our remembrance, and the 'nun' means: We have blessed you in the gardens of Our secrets. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have circumambulated with your Ka'ba the worlds of Our kingdom, and the 'nun' means: We have abrogated with your law all Our laws. It is said that the 'ta' means: We have effaced through you the eyes of Our enemies, and the 'nun' means: We have saved you from the calamities of passions and revived through you the landmarks of Our religion. So all the masters of gnoses have their understandings and expressions, their sources and states and allusions, and gnostic derivations by which they derive what their Beloved, may God bless him and grant him peace, was specially endowed with of the most sublime perfections, and by which they allude to what he attained of the highest degrees and most honorable stations. And due to the intensity of the absence of each one of them in him, what befits his state flows upon his tongue. That is because the knower only speaks of what is cast into his heart and engraved in his heart, and expresses what the love of his Master has taken possession of his inner being and core, as it is said: The living in the Living, the secret in the secret, the light in the innermost, the unveiling in the insight, the state interprets, the tongue expresses, the heart roams in the meadows of its Beloved, the spirit circles around His sanctuary and seeks to attain from His pool. So it desires only Him, is pleased only with Him, seeks only from Him, and hears only from Him.

He yearns only for Him, witnessing Him without veil, reaching Him without interruption, and intoxicated in Him without sobriety. His soul has accompanied the delight of His address to him on the day of "Am I not your Lord?" ³⁶⁹. So that became latent in the folds of his innermost secrets and the hidden depths of his conscience. When he hears a reminder, a chanter, a caller, or a mourner, that latent secret within him is illuminated, reminding him of that first covenant. Sometimes he sighs with longing, sometimes he groans. When ecstasy ³⁷⁰ overcomes him with its dominances, and he drinks from the sources of its influxes, awe ³⁷¹ strikes him, so he freezes and melts; flashes of gentleness ³⁷² shine upon him, so he moves and delights; and the rising lights of love appear from the horizons of proximity ³⁷³, so he becomes intoxicated and absent. For the hearts of the knowers ³⁷⁴ are filled with the remembrance of God, empty of the turbidities of passions, burning with love of God Almighty, having none other than Him. So longing and ecstasy are latent in them, like the concealment of fire in a fire-stick; they only appear by striking against what is similar to them. You see them stirred by their ecstasy, speaking from their intention, and manifesting ecstasy from the hidden secrets of their innermost selves, not from the poet's words nor the speaker's intent. They pay no attention to the literal words, because understanding precedes what the mind imagines. Evidence of this is what is related about one of the knowers: A man passed through an alley in Egypt selling thyme and calling out, "O thyme, my land!" Three worshippers understood from it their states and stations. The first, who was in the state of beginning, understood from it, "Strive in My obedience, you will see the gifts of My generosity." The second, who was intermediate in worship, understood, "O vastness of My goodness!" i.e., how vast is My goodness and beneficence to those who love and obey Me. The third, who was advanced in worship and yearning for unveiling ³⁷⁵, understood, "Now you will see My goodness," i.e., the time of unveiling is near and its season has come. These are the states of the knowers. Their allusions and contestations are never devoid of divine rulings and gnostic benefits, according to what is cast into their hearts and what is thrown into their hearts of the stored knowledge from God ³⁷⁶ and the concealed secret of the All-Merciful. It is an address to their subtle worlds in a manner that precludes doubt, conjecture, and illusion; rather, they are gnostic inspirations, divine realities, eternal gifts, and merciful subtleties. They are found and known; they come upon them from the presences of divine teachings, and they receive them with good understanding. They flow from the listener to the secrets, with subtle gifts, shining lights, and illuminations. They erase from the heart what was not, and pour into it what has always been. So it is a hearing of truth by truth from truth, as al-Junayd ³⁷⁷ said when asked about spiritual audition ³⁷⁸: "It is the reminder of the soul's address from the first covenant when He said, 'Am I not your Lord? They said, Yes.'" So whoever heard heard the speech of the Truth when there was no description, no limit, no form, only the meaning that was heard. The sweetness of that hearing remained in them. When He brought them out into the world, that was in them. When they hear a pleasant melody and a beautiful voice, their aspirations fly to that origin, and they are snatched by the light of grace to the stations of union. They hear from the origin and point to the origin. It is related that when God created Adam, peace be upon him, he remained as a lifeless form for a time. When God commanded the spirit to enter, it was reluctant. So God commanded the angels to form a circle of remembrance with the most beautiful, enchanting, and awe-inspiring voices for those who heard them. The spirit yearned for their beauty and entered his body, enraptured by the remembrance of God, and did not recover from its ecstasy until it found itself in Paradise. From that ³⁷⁹, the spirits remain yearning for the presence of remembrance with beautiful voices, because that inclination in them is from there. Whenever they hear beautiful voices in remembrance of God, they yearn, fly, become restless, long, and manifest ecstasy according to their immersion and what God has deposited in them of that divine subtlety taken from the presence of God, exalted is He. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, entered upon the People of the Bench ³⁸⁰ with Ibn 'Abbas, may God be pleased with him, and found them reciting poetry among themselves. When they saw him, they stopped out of reverence for him. When he sat down with them, he said, "Is there anyone among you who can recite some poetry for us?" They said, "Yes, O Messenger of God, may God bless you." Then one of them recited: "Every morning and every dawn, my eyes weep with tears of longing. The snake of love has stung my liver; no physician or charmer can cure it, except the Beloved, whom I am passionately devoted to; in Him is my charm and antidote." The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was moved with ecstasy until his cloak fell from his body. He gave it to the People of the Bench, who were forty men, and cut it into forty pieces. And from Anas ibn Malik, may God be pleased with him, that the daughters of al-Najjar entered upon the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and beat the tambourines and sang the ode of Ka'b ibn Zuhayr ³⁸¹ in which he praised the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, which includes: "Su'ad has departed, so today my heart is enchained, captivated by her, not ransomed, fettered. Su'ad is nothing, on the morning of parting when they departed, but a white-faced, soft-eyed, kohl-eyed gazelle." When they said, "And pardon is hoped for from the Messenger of God," the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was moved with ecstasy. When they said, "Indeed, the Messenger is a sword by which light is sought, a polished sword from the swords of God, unsheathed, among a group of Quraysh whose speaker said, in the valley of Mecca when they embraced Islam, they departed," his ecstasy increased until the cloak fell from his shoulders. He threw it to them. Al-'Abbas bought it from them for four hundred dinars. It remained with him for blessing from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. When Ka'b recited it before the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, he said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "Ka'b ibn Zuhayr." The Prophet threw him the cloak. It remained with him until the time of Mu'awiya, who sent him ten thousand [dirhams] for it, but he refused. When Ka'b died, Mu'awiya sent twenty thousand to Ka'b's children and took it from them. It remains to this day with the kings of the East, preserved for blessing, inherited among them from king to king. From this the Sufis took spiritual audition and dance. One of them was asked about spiritual audition: "What is it?" He said, "Everything that brings you together with God is remembrance." In this meaning, my master Abu Madyan ³⁸² says: "The mention of stories about you stirs us; were it not for love of you, we would be stirred in the privacies. Were it not for your meanings, our hearts would be pure; if we are awake or asleep, we would die of grief from longing for you and passion, but in the meaning of your meanings is a meaning. Do you not see the caged bird, O youth, when it remembers its homeland, it yearns for its abode? It rejoices in chirping with what is in its heart, and people of intellect are delighted when it sings. Likewise, the spirits of lovers, O youth, are stirred by longings for the highest world."

The knower (al-ʿārif) is he who hears from Allah Most High, understands from Him, takes from Him, and receives from Him. The dense expressions do not prevent him from understanding the subtle meanings, just as one of the knowers said: “Whoever claims to hear and does not hear from the sound of birds, the creaking of the door, and the whistling of the winds, he is a slanderer and a pretender. The knower hears the subtleties of allusions from the densest of expressions, just as ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may Allah honor his face) heard the sound of a bell and said to his companions: ‘Do you know what this bell says?’ They said, ‘No.’ He said: ‘It says: Glory be to Allah, truly, truly, indeed the Master is Eternal, He endures.’” And it was said to one of the Sufis: “Who is fit for spiritual audition (al-samāʿ)?” He said: “For him who hears the creaking of the door and the pleasant sound.” So glory be to Him who gave to every heart what occupies it and made easy for each what he was created for. And they recited: When you are listening to a saying, listen with the heart before the ear. Cast your hearing, and you will witness every meaning, and in your witnessing you will hear every art. Whoever’s ecstasy (wajd) is a true ecstasy has no need for the singer’s words. He has from his own essence an ancient delight and a perpetual intoxication without a wine-jar. So leave me from the love-songs of Qays Laylā and from the verses of Jamīl Buthayn. For in me is a passion that diverts from poems, and in me is a delight that suffices without strings. In me, in my very self, is every subtle meaning; so if you hear, you hear from me. My ecstasy is not cut off, but wherever my Beloved is, you will find me. If you do not grasp the meaning and know the hidden aspects of what I say, then do not blame me. Whoever attends the audition without a heart and does not delight, let him not blame the singer. And if, O blamer, you are ignorant of my affair, then leave off your blame and let me be. I sing the name of my Love, I do not use a nickname; and if a thousand times I have used a nickname, that is whom I mean. My wine, if I drink, is the purity of my love; my provision, if I set out, is my good opinion (ḥusn al-ẓann). And I am not content, if He is not content with me, with any bliss, nor even with the Gardens of Eden. Indeed, Allah Most High has placed in beautiful sounds and singing with melodies a strange effect in souls, a wondrous influence, and a reviving for human spirits and other non-speaking animals. How excellent is what Kashājim said: If you deny in people a melody’s benefit and use, Then look at the camels—no doubt they are coarser in nature than you— They incline to the voices of the drivers and cut through the deserts, cutting. In the melodies of the camel-driver for camels there is a great property, in the attainment of delight (ṭarab) for them upon hearing the driver’s voice. The more beautiful the voice, the greater the delight, so much so that they cover a great distance in a short time, due to the energy they gain from that audition. They direct their attention to the audition and hasten in travel, feeling neither hunger, thirst, nor fatigue. Perhaps the intensity of travel with heavy loads may cause them to die, and they do not perceive it—a wisdom from the Mighty, the Powerful. As occurred in the story mentioned in the Book of Audition (Kitāb al-Samāʿ) from al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ, on the authority of Abū Bakr al-Raqqī, who said: “A man hosted me in the desert, and I found with him a fettered slave, and around the house dead camels, and one living camel emaciated. The slave said: ‘Intercede for me with my master.’ So I interceded for him. He said: ‘He destroyed my camels.’ I said: ‘How?’ He said: ‘He has a beautiful voice, and I live from their backs. He loaded them with heavy loads and sang to them, and they covered a three-day journey in one night due to the sweetness of his melody. When he unloaded their burdens, they died, except this camel. But I have forgiven him for your sake.’ I said: ‘I would like to hear his voice.’ When morning came, he ordered him to draw water on a camel. When he raised his voice, the camel went mad, broke its ropes, and I fell on my face due to the beauty of his voice.” His saying: “Lord of the two easts” (rabb al-mashriqayn)—that is, in the prophetic secret (al-sirr al-nabawī) and the chosen spirit (al-rūḥ al-muṣṭafawī)—“and Lord of the two wests” (rabb al-maghribayn)—that is, the Muḥammadan heart (al-qalb al-muḥammadī) and the Aḥmadī intellect (al-ʿaql al-aḥmadī). For from the secret and the spirit, the suns of the Essence and the moons of the Attributes rise to the world of the hearts of the prophets and the intellects of the elect. When the time of manifestation passes, those suns and moons conceal themselves in the Muḥammadan heart and the Aḥmadī intellect, so the heart and intellect become their two wests, and the spirit and secret their two easts. His saying: “He let forth the two seas that meet” (maraja al-baḥrayn yaltaqiyān)—meaning the sea of witnessing (al-mushāhada) and the sea of watchfulness (al-murāqaba). It is said: the sea of reality (baḥr al-ḥaqīqa) and the sea of the Law (baḥr al-sharīʿa). “Between them is a barrier they do not overstep” (baynahumā barzakh lā yabghiyān)—which is the veil of the greatest Divinity (ḥijāb al-ulūhiyya al-aʿẓam) and the mantle of the marked Truth (ridāʾ al-ḥaqq al-muʿallam)—the sea of Muḥammadan perfections (baḥr al-kamālāt al-muḥammadiyya al-afham), from whose pure springs the saints (awliyāʾ) have drawn, and the intellects of the greatest of the elect have fallen short of grasping his virtues and excellences, and the tongues of praisers have wearied of encompassing the perfections of his attributes and qualities. He is the one alluded to in the saying of the Sultan of the Knowers and the Chief of the Disposers, Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī (may Allah be pleased with him): “We plunged into a sea, while the prophets stood on its shore.” Its author—may Allah honor him with His pleasure, grant him the gifts of His bounty and favor, shower upon him the clouds of His mercy, treat him with His pardon and forgiveness, and make the Gardens his abode and dwelling—said: When I reached in this luminous station this gnostic place, the lightning of Muḥammadan lights flashed for me, and the fragrant breezes of Aḥmadī scents wafted over me. It became apparent to me to write upon the saying of this saint: “We plunged into a sea, while the prophets stood on its shore.” That is because the prophets (peace and blessings be upon them) stood on the shore of the sea of the Law (sharīʿa) of the Master of Mankind, and did not plunge into it, due to their standing at what their Lord, the All-Knowing King, had set for them. The saints (awliyāʾ) plunged into it, honored by following his sunna and imitating his pure Law in all sayings, deeds, and applications of rulings. For Jesus (peace be upon him), when he descends, will judge only by his Law, established on foundations of veneration and exaltation. He is the absolute Seal of the Saints (khātam al-awliyāʾ) and their Imam in this station. Then know that the greatest inheritors are the two seals: one is greater than the other. One is he by whom Allah seals sainthood absolutely, and one is he by whom Allah seals Muḥammadan sainthood. As for the Seal of Sainthood absolutely, he is Jesus (peace be upon him), and he is the saint by absolute prophethood in the time of this community. He is prevented from legislation and messengership. He will descend at the end of time as an inheritor and a seal, with no saint after him by absolute prophethood, just as Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the seal of prophethood, with no legislative prophethood after him. So it is known that Jesus, even though he is after him and among the Messengers of Strong Will (ulū al-ʿazm) and the elite of the messengers, his ruling has ceased from this station due to the ruling of time upon him, which is for another. So he is sent as a saint possessing

Of an absolute prophethood (nubuwwa muṭlaqa), and he inspires through the law (sharʿ) of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he understands it in the manner of the Muḥammadan saints (al-awliyāʾ al-muḥammadiyyīn), for he is of us and he is our master. Thus, in the end of the matter, he was a prophet (nabī), just as the one devoid [of prophethood] was a prophet in the beginning of the matter. So prophethood was sealed with Muḥammad, and sainthood (al-wilāya) with Jesus, peace be upon them both. And from his honor, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is that Allah sealed the sainthood of his community with a prophet, a messenger (rasūl), honored, a beloved, (164) a beloved, majestic, magnified. So upon our Prophet and upon him be the most excellent blessings and the purest peace, as long as a caravan halts on the shore of his prophetic sea and tent, and honor and generosity, and glory and majesty. And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. As for the Muḥammadan inheritor (al-wārith al-muḥammadī), from his sign is that he witnesses himself behind every prophet, even if they were a hundred thousand prophets, he would see himself in places equal to their number. For all the prophets and messengers have gathered their realities (ḥaqāʾiq) and laws (sharāʾiʿ) in Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. So whoever believes in him and affirms him, it is as if he truly believed in all the prophets. Then, when his form multiplies behind all the prophets, he sees and knows that it is he and not another in every form. Ibn al-ʿArabī has spoken at length on this, and he said in the seventy-third [section], in the seventy-eighth answer: Know that this Muḥammadan state (al-dawla al-muḥammadiyya) encompasses the stations (aqdām) of the prophets and messengers. So any saint (walī) who sees a station before him in the presence of the Truth (ḥaḍrat al-ḥaqq), that is the station of the prophet whose inheritor he is. As for the station of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, no one treads in his footsteps, just as no one is upon his heart, and just as no one is ever his inheritor in perfection (al-kamāl), because if one inherited him in perfection, he would be a messenger like him or a prophet with a law specific to him, which he takes from the One from whom Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took, and no one claims that. End quote. (165) Shall I, with mention of verses, fulfill your praise? * Where is my capacity, and where is the fulfillment of it? And to you belongs the community that envied * [others] through you, when you brought them the prophets. We feared not misguidance after you, while among us * Are the inheritors of the light of your guidance, the scholars. So the ends of the prophets ceased, but your ends * Among people have no cessation. And the miracles (karāmāt) from them are signs (muʿjizāt) * That the saints (awliyāʾ) have attained from your bounty. So I say: And with Allah I seek help, and there is no power nor strength for us in anything except through the power of our Mighty, Succoring Master. A prophetic, encompassing sea, and a luminous, simple meaning. The one drowning in its surging tide hears no gasping sound of its flow and supply. A sea whose water is sweeter than honey and more pleasant than milk, and whose fragrance is more fragrant than the musk of Dārīn, and the aloeswood brought from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and the land of China. A sea that has rendered all creation incapable of understanding its meaning and form, then the Creator of souls chose it as a beloved for Him. A sea that none can dive into except the people of revelation (waḥy) and inspiration (ilhām), and the spiritual beings (rūḥāniyyūn) and the cherubim (karūbiyyūn) and the great and noble ones. Its matter is built upon knowledge of branches and roots, and its meaning is founded upon the realities of proximity and attainment. A sea whose delineation of form dazzles minds (166) and intellects, and whose brilliant flashes of miracles (muʿjizāt) incapacitate the greatest of the excellent and the masters. The vision of its lights and secrets guides the ignorant and opens the doors of good for the people of opening and entry. A sea of light within the heart of the Frequented House (al-bayt al-maʿmūr), stamped upon it with a seal of light. “O mankind, there has come to you a proof from your Lord, and We have sent down to you a manifest light” (Qur’an 4:174). The sea of its ruby: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah. And its proof: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Prophet of Allah. And its emerald: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Beloved of Allah. And its chrysolite: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Trustworthy of Allah. And its pebbles: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Saint (walī) of Allah. And its coral: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the Intimate of Allah. And its gold: There is no god but Allah, Muḥammad is the key to the doors of Allah’s mercy. Whoever obeys him has obeyed Allah, and whoever disobeys him has disobeyed Allah. The sea of its ambergris: “Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to you, they are only pledging allegiance to Allah” (Qur’an 48:10). And its honored stone: “Say, if you love Allah, then follow me, and Allah will love you” (Qur’an 3:31). And its most fragrant musk: “Say, O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger (167) of Allah to you all” (Qur’an 7:158). Its speech: Glory be to Allah (subḥāna Allāh), and praise be to Allah (al-ḥamdu li-llāh), and there is no god but Allah (lā ilāha illā Allāh), and Allah is the Greatest (Allāhu akbar), and there is no power nor strength except with Allah, the Most High, the Magnificent. The sea of its self: Recitation of the Book of Allah, and perseverance in the remembrance of Allah. The sea of its emblem: Upholding the rights of Allah, and sincerity of servitude to Allah. The sea of its agitation: Seeking pardon and forgiveness for the servants of Allah, and clemency and overlooking towards those who did evil and transgressed the limits of Allah. A sea that none traverses except those who love Allah, none wades into it except the closest of servants to Allah, none acknowledges it except those whom Allah has blessed, none knows its edge except those who follow Allah’s good pleasure, none travels in it except those who have given themselves to Allah, none fears it except those who dread Allah’s punishment, none turns away from it except those whom Allah hates, none crosses it except those who strive in obedience to Allah. A sea at whose shore the prophets stood, and the saints waded into the depths of its rulings and distinctions, and upheld the obligations of its duties and supererogatory acts, and acted according to the dictates of its abrogating and operative verses. The sea of its law (nāmūs): Gabriel the Trustworthy, and its lexicon (qāmūs) is the sacred hadith (al-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya) and the manifest Book of Allah. Its water is sweet, fresh, palatable for drinkers. A sea of great worth with Allah, (168) and of high station before Allah. A sea whose water never diminishes, nor does its giving decrease, nor does its purity become turbid, nor do its blessings and favors run out. A sea that, in its generosity, belittles the Nile and the Euphrates, the Sayḥūn and the Jayḥūn, and whose nobility surpasses the nobility of the pouring rains and the torrential clouds. A sea whose brilliant signs are “Be, and it is” (kun fa-yakūn), and the descriptions of its perfections cannot be encompassed by perceptions.

And of suspicions. Its inhabitants are noble people and eminent masters, whom God chose for Himself before creation and formation, and made them the companions of His Presence, and their eye in the prior designation. A sea before which clouds and seas diminish at the existence of his right hand, and suns and moons are ashamed of the radiance of his splendor and the brightness of his forehead. The masters of hearts follow his righteousness and religion, and the people of seclusion and solitude draw from his streams and his flowing spring. A sea of the kingdom of the divine presence, noble in rank and station, where Moses and al-Khidr met and drank from the spring of his life, and acquired from his knowledge what they acquired, so their insights were illuminated by what they witnessed of the lights of his essence and the meanings of his attributes. A sea whose virtues, merits, and signs cannot be counted, and there is no limit to the rising lights and suns of his prophethood and the flashes of his messages. A sea at whose green emerald shore the prophets stood, and the saints waded through the islands of his radiant law. Then from the spring of his love ³⁸³ waves surged, and with the gifts of his secrets, the joints, veins, and jugulars were filled. His wave filled the cosmos and the sanctuaries of holiness, and his secret illuminated hearts and the chambers of intimacy. Were it not that God veiled him with the cloak of protection, the lights of His glory would have burned all that appears in the world of being. A sea that the Supreme Pen refrained from writing his Chosen qualities, and the Tablet was too narrow to bear the inscription of his prophetic virtues. Glory be to Him who made this noble sea the meeting place of the two seas, the confluence of the two wisdoms, the source of the two weighty ones, and the inner dimension of the two matters. From it are extracted the pearls of openings for the people of tastes and ways, and from it are borrowed the jewels of goodly words for the people of states and attractions. He made it abundant in merits, secure in outcomes, in whose depths swim the brides of witnessed scenes and processions, and by whose vision the masters of stations and ranks are blessed. So bless him, O God, and bless his family, the shining full moons and piercing stars, and his companions, who are distinguished by honor and dignity in the farthest East and West, a blessing that ennobles for us our destinies and connections, and purifies for us our livelihoods and gains, and protects our hearts and earnings, and preserves us from afflictions, perils, and pitfalls, and makes us ³⁸⁴ among those who follow his pure ways and paths, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. Or you may say: When the lights of the Muhammadan sunrises overflowed into the heart of this great saint and renowned knower, and the rays of Ahmad's secrets shone upon his inner being, and he inhaled the breezes of unseen gifts and the affections of bestowed inspirations from the presences of proximity and nearness, and the stations of reception and purification, and he recited the sura of beginning and end, and attended the assemblies of the angels brought near and the eminent leaders, and witnessed the scenes of the prophets and noble messengers, and examined what was in the Preserved Tablet of the glad tidings of what our Prophet was distinguished with over them—upon him and them be the best prayer and purest peace—and it was unveiled to him what the Muhammadan community was distinguished with of honors and generosity, and what its chosen ones and saints were distinguished with of opening, reception, and inspiration, the light of Muhammadan love burned his limbs, and the influx of Ahmad's longing stirred his affliction and states, and he was overtaken by the intoxication and drunkenness that overtook al-Hallaj and his like. So he said: "We entered a sea at whose shore the prophets stood." So say to him who forbids the people of ecstasy: If you have not tasted the meaning of the wine of love, leave us ³⁸⁵. Do you not see the caged bird, O youth? When it remembers its homeland, it yearns for the abode. Likewise, the souls of lovers, O youth, are moved by longings for the highest world. Do you compel them to patience while they are yearning? Can he who has witnessed the meaning be patient? O driver of lovers, arise and drive while standing, and hum for us with the name of the Beloved and refresh us. And grant us what we claim, for when our longings overcome us, we may cry out. And guard our secret in our intoxication from our envier, and if your eyes see something, forgive us. For when we are good and our minds are good, and the wine of passion intoxicates us, we become reckless. So do not blame the drunkard in his drunkenness, for obligation is lifted from us in our intoxication. Or you may say: The meaning of what this saint said—and God knows best—is that when he—peace and blessings be upon him—was the opener of their lights, the seal of their secrets, the source of their outpourings, the essence of their desire, and through him prophecies and messages were sealed, and miracles, signs, and wonders were perfected, and in him God gathered what

They differed among themselves in virtues, excellences, beauties, and perfections, as they preceded him in mission and he came after them in creation. In that is a great divine wisdom and a noble, magnificent merit for him (peace and blessings be upon him) ³⁸⁶, because his prophethood surpassed all their prophethoods, his message encompassed all their messages, his law abrogated all their laws, and his book abrogated all their books. Thus they seek aid through him, triumph through his rank, and seek blessing and intercession through his noble name in all their affairs. They wish for his companionship and company, asking God to be among his community, and they magnify his majesty and sovereignty. Since they did not attain his Ahmadine mission ³⁸⁷ and were not obligated by his Muhammadan law, this became for them a standing at the shore of his greatest sea, which is specific to him and his community. The knowing saints from his community (peace and blessings be upon him) have plunged into his sea through their inheritance from him, their following of his sunna, and the light that was sent down with him, bearing the burdens of his law, thus becoming the supporters of his religion and the bearers of his law. Therefore, the Exalted said: "Muhammad is the Messenger of God; and those with him are severe against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves" [Quran 48:29]—the verse. If you wish, you may say: This sea at whose shore the prophets stood is the sea of the inner reality, which is the knowledge that God distinguished him (peace and blessings be upon him) between its proclamation and concealment. He conveyed it to the elite of his community, those of luminous forms ³⁸⁸ overflowing with secrets, established in the manifestations of theophanies, firmly rooted in the station of divine receptions. They plunged into it through speech according to their openings, understandings, and inspirations, with approaches and allusions, principles ³⁸⁹ and expressions—each crossing according to his state and what was opened to him, each drawing according to his understanding and what was cast into his heart and inspired to him. The prophets stood at the shore, since he was not commanded to convey it to them nor to conceal it from them. So they stood at the shore, observing the perfection of his honor with his Lord and the generosity of his community with their Lord, out of their respect (peace be upon them) for what was specifically given to him (peace and blessings be upon him) to the exclusion of them. Thus they stood at the shore, while the saints of this community plunged into the sea of their Beloved and Prophet, and into what God honored them with through him and granted them by his mediation—a special favor from God to them. Therefore, this knower said: "We have been singled out with a sea at whose shore the prophets stood," because they have no entry into it, nor do their nations. That is among the distinctive qualities of this community and its honor with its Lord. If you wish, you may say: When his spirit witnessed the world of sovereign dominion, the inner realm of spiritual angelic world, the stations of proximity and nearness, and realized through the light of divine unveiling and the soundness of theological, gnostic taste that this sea—whose elite are the saints and at whose shore the prophets stood—is the sea of our master Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), the meaning of "its elite are the saints" is that they entered into his presence, attained the secret of his wisdom, gained his regard, were blessed by his service, and drowned in the sea of his love. Thus they rowed beyond intermediaries and were independent of what is above the simple elements ³⁹⁰, because God chose him for Himself, preferred him over all others of his kind, extended to him the hand of vicegerency in His kingdom, showed him the majesty of His Self, and said concerning him: "Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to you are pledging allegiance to God" [Quran 48:10], and said: "Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God" [Quran 4:80]. The meaning of "the prophets stood at its shore" is that there is consensus that he is the Seal of the Prophets and the Last of the Messengers; there is no prophet after him, no glory rivals his glory, and God has sealed all laws with his law. No messenger after him brings a law to be worshipped in itself; rather, people are to worship according to his law until the Day of Resurrection. The prophets have no authority in the sphere of his kingdom, the throne of his sovereignty, the majesty of his might, the secret of his wisdom, the loftiness of his rank, the degrees of his proximity, or the essence of his power, as evidenced by the saying of the Exalted: "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets" [Quran 33:40]. Every excellence the noble messengers attained * was but connected from his light to them. For he is a sun of virtue, they are its stars * whose lights appear to people in darkness. Until when it rose on the horizon, it encompassed * the worlds and revived all nations. If you wish, you may say: When this saint's spirit witnessed the spirits of the prophets ³⁹¹ and messengers in the world of spirits and bodies, and observed what God had specially given this noble prophet of exalted rank and lofty station, and what He had specially given his community of radiant lights of opening and inspiration, he said: "We plunged into a sea at whose shore the prophets stood." The meaning of their standing at its shore is that he is their seal, the prophet of prophets, the master of the chosen ones. He is like the supreme sultan, and all prophets are like commanders of armies. If they all had lived, they would have been obligated to follow him, for he was sent to all.

All of creation from Adam until the establishment of the Hour ³⁹², and all the prophets among them were His deputies during the period of the absence of His noble body in the chambers of lights. For He is a full moon that settled in the highest sphere; through Him the lights of their religion appeared. And every difficulty that came to the noble messengers was only connected from His light to them. Or you may say: Every prophet was sent with a portion of His law, peace be upon him, not exceeding it, and stopping at what was defined for him from it. This is the meaning of their standing at the shore ³⁹³. And the scholars of his nation, peace be upon him, carried the banner of his law, fulfilled the duty of his sunna ³⁹⁴, and inherited his exoteric and esoteric sciences. That is the meaning of his saying, peace be upon him: "The scholars of my nation are like the prophets of the Children of Israel"—the hadith. So they plunged into the sea of His greatest secret, kindled from His most luminous lamp, and sought from Him the secrets of inspirations and receptions, and the gifts of gnoses, realities, and ladunni sciences ³⁹⁵. And through his spirituality they were informed of realities, sciences, secrets, and wisdoms that none other than them from the past nations were informed of. As it is related from Ka'b al-Ahbar ³⁹⁶, may God be pleased with him, that he said: The disciples said to Jesus, "O Spirit of God, is there after us a nation?" He said: "Yes, the nation of Ahmad—wise, learned, pious, God-fearing, as if they were from jurisprudence. They are content with God for little sustenance, and God is content with them for little deeds." This is the meaning of his saying: "We plunged into a sea, while the prophets stood at its shore." And God knows best. This is what God has opened for us in understanding these noble words, glorious in meanings and merits, elegantly phrased with the timings of gnoses and the gifts of jewels, which none understand except the elite of the great and the foremost of witnesses, and none speak of them except those whom God has adorned with both esoteric and exoteric knowledge. Praise be to God for that, and we ask Him, exalted, to remove from the eyes of our insights the veils of ignorance and heedlessness, and to lead us on the clearest paths and the best ways. Amen, amen, amen. Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. Then we mention after that what our shaykh Abu 'Abd Allah ³⁹⁷, my master Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Hayri al-Maghribi by origin and abode, al-Tarabulusi ³⁹⁸ by residence and settlement, explained to us. He answered with good answers, which I heard from him orally. Among them: that by "sea" is meant the law of our master Muhammad, peace be upon him, and by "plunging" is meant obligation. It is as if he said: We plunged into this Muhammadan law, while the prophets stood at its shore, since they are not obligated by it except mere faith, which is the standing referred to, because they are not his followers in it. And among them: that al-Bistami ³⁹⁹ and his like are in the station of specification, while the prophets are in the station of legislation for their nations, who are meant by "standing." It is as if he said: We plunged into a sea that the nations were not obligated to enter, and the prophets stood at its shore out of kindness to their followers. And among them: that by "sea" is meant what was exclusively given to him, peace be upon him, of merits and noble gifts and bestowals, to the exclusion of other prophets. So the saints of his nation plunged into its sea, because they inherited it, while the prophets stood at its shore and did not enter it due to their lack of inheritance of it. Rather, he is the inheritor of what they were given, and the one given what they were not, as an honor to him, peace be upon him. End. ❖ There they were good and absent from their attributes, and longing ignited fires in the entrails. ❖ They made known by beautiful description what they acknowledged, and made the heart a field for gnosis. ❖ It is narrated among people that they are drunk from their gnoses, likewise those who know them go drunk. ❖ A breeze blew upon them, fragrant with spirit and basil, meeting them at dawn. ❖ It settled in the hearts of the people a gnosis, and stirred in them ecstasy and sorrows. ❖ When He appears and manifests in His sanctuary, the cupbearer of wine and offers the full cup. ❖ He showed them drunk before they drank, and their drinker remained thirsty from drinking. ❖ When their guide sang to them, they shed what was in their hands, in drunkenness and gratitude. ❖ They surrendered religion and world to its seeker, and purified the heart as a homeland for the Beloved. ❖ This is my belief, and if I fall short in my deed, I ask God for success and forgiveness. And if you wish, you may say regarding His saying: "He let forth the two seas" ⁴⁰⁰, meaning the sea of the heart and the sea of the soul. The heart is the sea of praiseworthy and lofty character traits, high stations, and subtle gnoses and love. The soul is the sea of blameworthy traits—injustice and misguidance. The source of the sea of the heart is from the world of His gentleness, and the source of the sea of the soul is from the world of His severity. They do not mix with each other, for the soul does not become the heart, nor does the heart become the soul, because between them is the isthmus of intellect, knowledge, law, and path. Their pearl and coral here are faith and certainty, purity, light, and tranquility. These jewels emerge from the sea of the heart. When the soul becomes tranquil, the jewels of its sea overflow from the shells of the sea of unknown sciences, which are the loci of secrets and sources of lights. And if you wish, you may say: "He let forth the two seas, they meet"—they are 'Ali and Fatima. "Between them is an isthmus they do not overstep"—and that is the mirror of the manifestation of the Essence, the named of names and attributes, the descent of the lights of the Jabarut ⁴⁰¹, the gathering of the realities of the Lahut ⁴⁰², the source of the subtleties of the Nasut ⁴⁰³, the blowing of the breezes of the Raghabut ⁴⁰⁴, the abode of the secrets of the Malakut ⁴⁰⁵, the manifestation of the lights of the 'Azamut ⁴⁰⁶, the very essence of eternal felicity, the locus of the jewels of the divine descents, the mode of the beneficent self-disclosures, the fringe of the carpet of the Sultanic Presence, the saintly one characterized by the attributes of the All-Merciful, the friend realized by the realities of the lordly perfections, the intimate one clothed in the robes of solitary sovereignty—our master Muhammad, peace be upon him. His saying: "From both emerge pearl and coral"—they are our masters al-Hasan and al-Husayn, may God be pleased with them. So the seas surged, the full moons shone, the flowers bloomed, the lightnings of ascension and joy flashed, the brides of chambers and palaces were adorned, the youths and houris sang, the needs of souls and breasts were fulfilled, the lamps of radiance and light were lit. Between them is an isthmus of light, hidden in the world of concealment and manifestation, struck upon the treasuries of the Frequent House ⁴⁰⁷, the Raised Roof ⁴⁰⁸, and the Inflamed Sea ⁴⁰⁹. They do not overstep because of what God has granted them of perfect obedience and piety, generosity of souls, soundness of breasts, support, success, justice in all matters, widespread miracles, complete speciality, lofty station, and the tearing of veils and screens. "From both emerge pearl and coral"—"offspring, one from the other."

He means: the two precious pearls, the two hidden gems, in the shell of the secret of existence, the mirror of witnessing, the orator of the Praiseworthy Station ⁴¹⁰, and the bride displayed upon the pulpit of sovereignty on the Day of Witness ⁴¹¹; they are his two noble grandsons, the two moons of his radiant light, concerning whom he manifested their excellence over all creation and favor by his saying: "Al-Hasan and Al-Husayn are the masters of the youth of Paradise" ⁴¹², and by his saying: "Whoever loves them has loved me, and whoever hates them has hated me" ⁴¹³, and he prayed for their parents by saying: "May Allah bless you both and bring forth from you much good" ⁴¹⁴. Thus their mother was the inheritor of the luminous light, and their father was the inheritor of the greatest secret and renowned knowledge. They have never ceased to be the two springs of gnosis and secrets, the two lamps of gifts and lights. From them issued ⁴¹⁵ the elite and the poles ⁴¹⁶, the great ones and the noble ones. Their spiritual aid ⁴¹⁷ permeated the individuals of this community, its saints, its famous ones, and its chosen ones. To them belongs the greatest merit, the most magnificent honor, the most complete light, the most enduring glory, and the most universal generosity. By affiliation to them, stations are elevated; by love and veneration of them, the gifts of miracles ⁴¹⁸ appear. May Allah be pleased with them and grant them satisfaction, and bestow upon us their love and pleasure, and pour upon us from the aid of their secret that which brings tranquility to the eyes, reassures the souls, and increases faith. Amen, amen, amen. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. My existing aid, if drowsiness wanders * from its paths, Husayn and Hasan. The two pearls of the Chosen One ⁴¹⁹ and his two sons, and those * by whom they guide, the eloquent brother of ecstasy. The two masters of the youth of the highest gardens * and the radiance for the people of majesty, Hasan. Two moons that diminished the full moon of darkness * with a beauty that gathered the high ones with excellence. How could my heart not yearn for them * and see itself drawn without pledge? They are the two sweet basils ⁴²⁰ of the Guide ⁴²¹, who * by his sanctuary the world of existence leans. So they are my pride and my hoped-for treasure * on the Day of Gathering and Recompense and Sighing ⁴²². And they are my glory and my refuge if ever * a rumormonger distresses with calamity and trials. Can he fear the Fire who loves them * while they are the two grandsons of the trusted Prophet? Let the one who shelters with the Master be honored, the one who submits * to them one day, even if tears flow. Can the ecstatic, the exhausted, be frightened when * he departs the world and journeys to the Master? There is no place in my heart that they have not inhabited * in its precincts, and thus the heart is at rest. So take their remembrance as a litany ⁴²³, you will succeed * in attaining desires surely and be protected from trials. And adhere to the path of the two Imams ⁴²⁴, you will find * the delight of bliss secretly and openly. And say: O pride of the two worlds ⁴²⁵, is there * a cure for a sorrowful troop? Overwhelmed by a burden and a great calamity * that turned a lover from his praise and imprisonment. How often he hopes to reach your sanctuary * seeking refuge from what befell him and tempted. Seeking asylum with you, have mercy on him * from a cure that is linked to eternity. He has refused what he has committed to release him * from bonds since ages and time. He is worn out, complaining, calling upon you * crying for help: O Husayn, O Hasan! Unfasten my shackle and grant me my wishes * and bestow upon the companion of sorrow all favors. What is in my heart for you is not hidden * of passion to reach that homeland. Perhaps my grave will boast of you * from the non-irrigated soil, the radiant, aware. Kissing your grave until he is seen * striking with every good a mark. So eternal peace be upon you * from the Lord of the Throne, as long as a branch trembles. From the arák tree ⁴²⁶ with a breeze carrying * from you to the sleeper what dispels drowsiness. His saying: i.e., the vessels carrying the yearnings of lovers, the sighs of the infatuated, and the tears of the sorrowful to the stations of proximity and nearness, with the breezes of spirit and basil. Al-munsha’āt ⁴²⁷: i.e., the creations by the secret of eternal power and the subtlety of creative commands, sailing in the seas of Muhammadan lights, raising the sail of His beloved ones to his chosen presences and prophetic stations, like flags ⁴²⁸, i.e., firmly anchored in the harbors of proximities, fluttering with the winds of mutual affection. Likewise, the ships of the saints and the righteous, and the vessels of the arriving poles ⁴²⁹, carry the burdens of the seekers to the stations of success and happiness, and the places of good and benefit. For the ships of the saints and the righteous are preserved from drowning in the seas of misguidance, guarded by the eye of care and solicitude. Whoever boards them is delivered from the darkness of wretchedness and abandonment, saved from the fire of punishment and humiliation, reaches the fortresses of security and safety, the stations of pleasure and satisfaction, and dwells in the neighborhood of the Merciful, the Compassionate. His saying: "Everyone upon it [the earth] will perish" ⁴³⁰, with the breezes of longing and yearning, the gusts of ecstasies and absorption, the flashes of passion and burning, and the proffering of cups of drinks and tastes. "And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor" ⁴³¹, i.e., Possessor of generosity and beneficence, grace and favor, for whoever turns to Him secretly and openly, and approaches Him with heart and body and purity of the innermost self. That is, the Face of the Beloved remains for the beloved. In this is a beautiful subtlety and a great allusion to His beloved specially favored with the greatest theophany and the unveiling of the most noble Face. It is as if He says: All of them enjoyed the theophany of My Essence, but the unveiling of My Face remains for you eternally, O My beloved Muhammad. That is, the vision of My Face is specifically for you, then the lovers, your followers, in looking upon My Face. So the first unveiling is for you for the generality, but the mention of the Face specifically is a quality for the people of exclusivity. Indeed, the entire existence of the Foot ⁴³² is a Face. Do you not see how he, peace be upon him, said: "Indeed, Allah manifests Himself to Abu Bakr specifically, and to the believers generally"? So the theophany by the unveiling of the Face specifically for him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is unparalleled by any other theophany, and nothing among the types of unveilings resembles it. Rather, it is from the most holy divine secret and the most precious lordly perfection, which He specially bestowed upon the Spirit of all beings and the Master of the inhabitants of the earths and heavens.

So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the eminent masters, and his Companions, the illustrious guides, with a blessing that clothes us in the garments of felicities, and pours upon us the oceans of gifts and reinforcements, and makes us among those who are granted success in movements and stillnesses, choices and wills, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. ❖ All hearts seek the sweetness of union with You ❖ And every eye watches for the beauty of Your face ❖ The speech of all existence is transmitted from You ❖ So every ear has a delightful word from You ❖ Every meaning from You has a discerning understanding ❖ And every taste from You has a pleasant drink ❖ Spirits found rest in You and departed ❖ From their composition, while the subtle faculties ⁴³³ are their vehicle ❖ Your love captivated intellects until they released ❖ Any bond to other than You that is attributed to Your existence ❖ Souls competed for You with longing ❖ So their torment in the path of Your love becomes sweet ❖ O Dweller in the heart, who is at ease while being ❖ Distressed by His affliction, tormented for Him (186) ❖ Will You not ascend to the rank of Your love, just as ❖ He reckons upon the goodness of Your beauty? ❖ Perhaps You will annihilate from him what annihilation left ❖ As a cause that he uses as a means with You ❖ The utmost of longing in love, I see ❖ No soul melting in grief and tears being shed ❖ O branch of the willow ⁴³⁴, his hair and his forehead ❖ Are the sun of forenoon, this one and that one are darkness ❖ The fire of Your cheek, its coolness and peace ❖ Is a flame by which the innermost heart burns ❖ If lightning flashes from the gaps of his smile ❖ Then the carnelian of the lover's tears is a downpour ❖ His qualities gathered beauty, so his union ❖ After separation is a wondrous gathering ❖ He travels with the secrets of intellects, as if he is ❖ A subtlety combined with the simple spirit ⁴³⁵ ❖ Beauty bestowed upon him the robe of his comeliness ❖ And its majesty has a gilded embroidery ❖ Intellects reach no end concerning him ❖ Whether they wish to go to extremes or not ❖ He inhabited the levels, outwardly from inwardly ❖ And he has a station above the highest excellences ❖ In every eye is the secret of the meaning of his secret ❖ Appearing in his lights, veiled And this is the description of the Sea of the Secret ⁴³⁶. (187) O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of good and blessings, and the Opening of Remembrance ⁴³⁷, whose secret permeates spirits, bodies, and illuminated hearts. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of gifts and fragrant breezes, and the Fragrance of Diffusion ⁴³⁸, whose scent wafts through gardens, flowers, and all regions and directions. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of bestowals and blessings, and the Exalted in Rank, praised by the inhabitants of the Lofty Tablet ⁴³⁹ and the servants of the veils and pavilions. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of the subtle secrets and reinforcements, and the Eminent in Glory, sealed for those who increase blessings upon him with the seals of success and felicity. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of supplication in the blackness of night and the depths of darkness, and the Ornament of the Age, whose light shines in the manifestations of theophanies and the assemblies and presences. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of forbearance and lowering the wing for widows (189) and the chaste, and the Mine of Patience, who treats kindly those who wronged him from the rabble and the rude. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of the noblest acts of worship and the most perfect acts of obedience, and the Abundant Reward, who revives with his exhortations the dead of darkened inner selves and hardened hearts. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret, with crashing waves of the lights of prophecies and messages, and the Unique of the Age, who combines the beauties of outward and inward attributes and all perfections. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret ⁴⁴⁰, with crashing waves of various kinds of favors and miracles, and the Sword of Victory, supported by decisive proofs and clear signs. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret, with crashing waves of gifts of gnosis, and subtleties of purification and nearness, and the Spirit of the Command ⁴⁴¹, whose spirit ascends to the noblest stations and highest ranks. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret, with crashing waves of the greatest means and the most perfect desires, and the Forehead of Dawn ⁴⁴², whose light shines upon the faces (190) of the people of good and the unique ones marked with righteousness and elevation of degrees. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret, with crashing waves of compassion and mercy and emotions of mercies, and the Veil of Covering, who removes from those who seek refuge in him the greatest hardships and overwhelming distresses. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret, with crashing waves of righteous deeds and all acts of devotion, and the Antidote of Compulsion ⁴⁴³, healing those who treat themselves with it from hidden desires and subtle ailments. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the luminous stars, and his Companions, the stars of guidance and the full moons of truth that shine, with a blessing that increases for us good deeds, and pardons our slips, and stops us from the pitfalls of frivolity and heedlessness, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless our master and lord Muhammad and the family of our master Muhammad, the Sea of the Secret of the Secret, and the Unseen of the Secret, and the Law of the Secret, and the Book of the Revelation of the Secret between the Beloved and the Loved One, and the Treasurer of the Secret, and the Chamberlain (191) of the Secret, and the Address of the Secret, and the Answer of the Secret, and the Discourse of the Secret between the lover and the beloved, and the seeker and the sought, and the Spirit of the Secret, and the Self of the Secret, and the Breeze of the Secret, and the Influx of the Secret between the concealer and the speaker and the overcome, and the Presence of the Secret, and the Splendor of the Secret, and the Light of the Secret, and the Carpet of the Secret, and the Core of the Secret between the desirer and the desired, and the Garden of the Secret, and the Bliss of the Secret.

And the wine of the secret, and the delight of the secret, and the cup of the secret, and the wine of the secret which is between the Attractor (al-Jādhib) and the Attracted (al-Majdhūb), And the eye of the secret, and the caller of the secret, and the beauty of the secret, and the perfection of the secret, and the intermediary of the secret, and the connection of the secret, which is between the Bestower (al-Wāhib) and the Bestowed (al-Mawhūb), and the lamp of the secret, and the light of the secret, and the splendor of the secret, and the ray of the secret, and the gift of the secret exchanged between the masters of states and hearts, and the breeze of the secret, and the coffee of the secret, and the ecstatic utterance of the secret, and the glance of the secret which is between the Attainer (al-Wāṣil) and the Attributed (al-Mansūb), and the tenderness of the secret, and the compassion of the secret, and the amulet of the secret, and the wisdom of the secret, and the basil of the secret, and the messenger of the secret which is between the Writer (al-Kātib) and the Written (al-Maktūb). Ṭā Hā, the niche of the lights of hearts, and the treasury of the divinely-bestowed (al-ladunnī) knowledge. Ṭā Hā, the opener of the secrets of the unseen, and the delight of assemblies and the musk of collars. Ṭā Hā, the supreme intermediary between the Lord (al-Rabb) and the Lorded (al-Marbūb). (192) Ṭā Hā, the Gatherer (al-Ḥāshir), the Final (al-ʿĀqib), the Effacer (al-Māḥī) of all errors and sins. Ṭā Hā, the outward of the malakūtī (angelic) secret. Ṭā Hā, the inward of the raḥmūtī (compassionate) secret. Ṭā Hā, the elixir of the jabarūtī (omnipotent) secret. Ṭā Hā, the tongue of the raghabūtī (desirous) secret. Ṭā Hā, the effusion of the ʿaẓamūtī (majestic) secret. Ṭā Hā, the secret of the lāhūtī (divine) secret. Prophethood and messengership are his beginning, and the delivery, infallibility, and preservation of the trust are his protection, and the Book, the Sunnah, devotion, and worship are his guidance, and asceticism, piety, chastity, and wealth in God are his sufficiency, and might through God, love in God, proximity to God, and annihilation in God are his care, and generosity, munificence, liberality, and noble character traits are his nature, and the Qur'an, the angels, the righteous believers, and victory through terror are his protection, and patience, humility, knowledge, and forbearance are his knowledge. There is no limit to his Muḥammadan qualities, no end to his Aḥmadī perfections, no finality to his Muṣṭafawī (Chosen) graces, and his prophetic characteristics, his noble essential traits, and his widely-transmitted, manifest miracles cannot be matched. **Section:** O God, bless and grant peace upon him and upon his family, possessors of high stations, and his Companions, possessors of fulfilling covenants, a blessing through which You pour upon us from the pure oceans of His gifts, (193) and through which the subtle meanings of his sublime praises flow upon our tongues, by Your favor and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. This is your beacon, O Muḥammad, it has risen high; its vanguards have appeared with a radiant light. How often did the nobles of Mecca contend with you for glory, out of envy—and can a pebble be compared to a jewel? And you excelled them by the dust of your sandal; indeed, the purity of the branch stems from the purity of the origin. No hand ever contended with you to attain a virtue, except that it was told, "Restrain your hand!" Or if the great ones of the Arabs balanced against you, they were outweighed by the nail-paring of the little finger. And you are the secret of the messengers and the best of those who trod the earth, from the highlands or the lowlands. And you are the sea of the secret of the secret, since you were singled out for the great, supreme secret. From you existence shone forth, and to you belong the sacred secrets in the most renowned station. And the seas of all the secret gushed forth from you, and the cosmos shone from your lunar radiance. Awe has pitched the tent of might before you, and it has risen above the arrogant, the tyrannical. And your stars have risen with felicity, and the sun of existence has shone with your abundant portion. And the lights of prophecy showed you what was concealed in the cosmos of a hidden, secret mystery. (194) And by the praise of the revealed revelation, its verses detailed your miracles, so give thanks. And your noble qualities have encompassed the world with generosity and guidance, and others are stored for the Gathering. The pride of majesty, awe, and sublimity, and intercession in the Hereafter, and the Basin of Kawthar. O delight of the world and protection of its people from every frowning, grim calamity, Spread over me the banner of Your might and protect me, and when I triumph by the rank of Your might, then grant me victory. And may God bless you, O banner of guidance, as long as the smiling, radiant dawn appears, And upon the most generous guides, the stars of Islam, the chosen, excellent Companions. O God, O He who pours forth the oceans of gifts and gnoses upon the hearts of His righteous saints, and unveils the intricacies of secrets and openings to the elite of His elect, the knowers (al-ʿārifīn), and opens the doors of proximity and response to those in need and the supplicants, and raises the veils of might and majesty to the elite of the elite among the eminent lovers and the attained poles (al-aqṭāb al-wāṣilīn), and spreads the cloak of intimacy and beauty for the people of seclusions, manifestations, and solitary rememberers. I ask You, O my Master, by the sanctity of our master Muḥammad (may God bless him and grant him peace), the Sultan of the prophets and messengers, and the model of the saints and the righteous, whom You made blessing upon him the arena of the spirits of (195) the lovers, and persistence in his remembrance the life of the spirits of the yearning ones, and immersion in his love the ultimate desire of the desirous, and affiliation to him the care of the perfect substitutes (al-abdāl al-kāmilīn), and arrival from the sea of his supreme secret the utmost hope of the seekers, and the healing of the hearts of the enamored, the thirsting—that You grant me of the secrets and benefits what You have granted to Your near servants, and bestow upon me of the gifts and subtleties what You have bestowed upon Your pious beloved ones, and give me of the graces and the breaking of norms what You have given

for the special qualities of Your servants who have authority ⁴⁴⁴, and make me among those whose fragrant breezes ⁴⁴⁵ have spread in the world of dominion ⁴⁴⁶ and the angelic realm ⁴⁴⁷, and whose spirituality has traversed the treasuries of mercy ⁴⁴⁸ and omnipotence ⁴⁴⁹, so they were dazzled by what they witnessed of the presence of Majesty ⁴⁵⁰, and were lost in what they beheld of the lights of Beauty ⁴⁵¹. Thus, in the station of astonishment and bewilderment, they became intoxicated with the wine of passionate love ⁴⁵², and became drunkards in the world of dominion, "though they are not drunk" ⁴⁵³, "dead, not alive, and they do not perceive when they will be resurrected" ⁴⁵⁴. And that You give me to drink, O Allah, from the spring of the supply of the vast, abundant sea of Your Beloved ⁴⁵⁵, overflowing with divine gifts and the greatest secret ⁴⁵⁶, receiving the secret of the most holy revelation ⁴⁵⁷ in the highest station and noblest manifestation, from whose overflowing waves the seas of mysteries burst forth, from whose handful of light the suns of illuminations split open, and from the splendor of whose beauty the shining stars and moons rejoiced. So the people of subsistence ⁴⁵⁸ drank from it and remained in the land of subsistence, neither grieved by anything nor rejoicing in anything. They bound their selves to their spirits ⁴⁵⁹, and bound their spirits and secrets to what is with Allah, and stood there with no choice. They attained the ship ⁴⁶⁰ and possessed it through the effect of subsistence, and were elevated by subsistence above preservation ⁴⁶¹. They purified their thoughts, movements, stillness, and breaths for their Master, so they attained the station of proximity ⁴⁶² and became established in the station of love ⁴⁶³. Their spirits roamed in the witnessing places of absence ⁴⁶⁴; they entered the city of transcendence ⁴⁶⁵, strutting in the gardens of its courtyard, between sitting in standing, standing in sitting, movement in stillness, stillness in movement, fasting in breaking fast, breaking fast in fasting, eating in drinking, drinking in eating, negation in affirmation, and affirmation in negation. The breezes of Majesty shone upon them in the day of Beauty, and the breezes of Beauty in the night of Majesty. Their day is night and their night is day; their stations are ascents and their ascents are stations; their moving stars ⁴⁶⁶ revolve in their orbits, and their full moons ⁴⁶⁷ shine in their characters. Their outward is human, their inward is spiritual and luminous. They received the highest price of the meanings of perfection and the highest degree of mastery. Through them, joining is realized, and upon their traces, precedence is sought. So, O Allah, create in me their pure characters, realize me with their bestowed realities ⁴⁶⁸, lodge me in their lofty stations, make me travel their journey in traversing the stations of union ⁴⁶⁹, honor me and distinguish me with what You have honored and distinguished them with of honor and perfection, show me their witnessing places in the manifestations of Beauty, and make my foot firm with what You have made their feet firm in the presences of Majesty. And gather me with them in Your holy enclosure ⁴⁷⁰, and delight me with them in witnessing Your Beauty on the carpet of Your intimacy, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. If I do not die of longing for You, then I will die of longing, or I will die as a lover. You clothed me in the garment of wasting love ⁴⁷¹, and I fell in love with it; who before me has seen a wasting love that is beloved? My heart does not settle in the abode of my limbs unless my heart flutters toward You. And may my eye be free of blame if it does not leave a path for tears in the course of tears. May there be no state that does not make me a servant to it, so that I see humiliation as real. With the sweetness of sincerity, my joy is in contentment; indeed, I have seen You as kind to servants. By the protection of the secret ⁴⁷². In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. "Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance" ⁴⁷³. "Say, 'If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement'" ⁴⁷⁴. "Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His unseen to anyone, except whom He approves of messengers, and indeed He makes before him and behind him a guard, that He may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Lord, and He encompasses what is with them and enumerates all things in number" ⁴⁷⁵. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of the flowing secret ⁴⁷⁶, whose secret is in the openings of the chapters ⁴⁷⁷ and all the verses, the treasure of hidden mysteries, in whom Allah has gathered what was scattered in others of diverse beauties and perfections. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of prophethood ⁴⁷⁸, whose secret flows in the subtleties of meanings and delicate allusions, the tongue of sciences, whose beautiful attributes cannot be encompassed by the results of understandings and the subtleties of expressions. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, whose secret flows in the traces of names and attributes, the copy of the greater world ⁴⁷⁹, through whom Allah opened the closure of existence and made the shining stars bright. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, whose secret flows in the hiding places of light and the manifestations of theophanies ⁴⁸⁰, the sovereign of the kingdom, whose command is effective in the encompassing cycles and the worlds of higher and lower spirits. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, whose secret flows in the consciences of hearts and the unseen of identities ⁴⁸¹, the lamp of existences, through whom Allah opened the secrets of rational and transmitted sciences.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood ⁴⁸², whose secret permeates the loci of descents ⁴⁸³ and inspirations, and the law of the secret ⁴⁸⁴, whose manifestations dazzled the masters of states ⁴⁸⁵ and miracles ⁴⁸⁶. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the worlds of simples ⁴⁸⁷ and composites ⁴⁸⁸, and the seed of existence ⁴⁸⁹, from whose light all originated beings ⁴⁹⁰ and invented things ⁴⁹¹ were formed. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the guiding imams, and his noble, honorable companions, with a blessing by which You send upon us clouds of mercies and blessings, and by which You lodge us in the paradises of gardens in the noblest of stations and the highest of ranks, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets ⁴⁹² of the lovers, their lofty attributes, and their bestowed remembrances ⁴⁹³. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their pure morals, and their approved states. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their Sufi aspirations ⁴⁹⁴, and their sacred allusions ⁴⁹⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their divine openings ⁴⁹⁶, and their ladunni sciences ⁴⁹⁷. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their unseen secrets, and their bestowed gifts ⁴⁹⁸. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their tablet-receptions ⁴⁹⁹, and their spiritual manifestations ⁵⁰⁰. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their lofty stations ⁵⁰¹, and their clear manifestations ⁵⁰². O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their pious hearts, and their intelligent minds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their luminous strivings ⁵⁰³, and their gnostic cognitions ⁵⁰⁴. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their eyewitness unveilings ⁵⁰⁵, and their lordly visions ⁵⁰⁶. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose secret permeates the innermost secrets of the lovers, their samadani miracles ⁵⁰⁷, and their rahmani affections ⁵⁰⁸. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the springs of faith-based gifts, and his companions, the locus of excellence-based virtues, with a blessing by which You encircle us with the meanings of Your solitary names ⁵⁰⁹, and by which You illuminate our inner sight with the secrets of Your Quranic sciences, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the gardens of the kingdom ⁵¹⁰ and the dominion ⁵¹¹ of treasures, and what is in the pavilions of the omnipotence ⁵¹² and the mercy ⁵¹³ of subtlety. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the enclosures of holiness of lights, and what is in the solitudes of intimacy of secrets. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the night vigil supplication ⁵¹⁴ of miracles, and what is in the discourse with the Truth of inspirations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the path of arrival ⁵¹⁵ of stations, and what is in the refinement of souls of perfections. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the gardens of love of subtleties, and what is in the cups of drinking ⁵¹⁶ of graces. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the sciences of the Quran of realities, and what is in the descents of revelation of delicate meanings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the beginnings of starts of openings, and what is in the end of ends of fragrant breezes. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the sciences of divine unity ⁵¹⁷ of proofs, and what is in the attainment of intercession of gifts. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the degree of speciality ⁵¹⁸ of virtues, and what is in the station of veracity ⁵¹⁹ of qualities. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the ranks of sainthood ⁵²⁰ of cognitions, and what is in the flashes of discernment ⁵²¹ of unveilings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the ways of guidance of benefits, and what is in the heaven of divine care of keys. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the isthmus of gathering ⁵²² of shining lights, and what is in the proofs of messengership of miraculous signs. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the manifestations of theophanies of gifts, and what is in the secrets of receptions of wonders. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the opening verses of the chapters ⁵²³ of allusions, and what is in the sciences of the folk ⁵²⁴ of expressions. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, encompassing what is in the seasons of goodness of tables of blessings, and what descends upon the Ancient House ⁵²⁵ of fragrant breezes of mercies. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood.

The All-Encompassing ⁵²⁶ of what is in the treasuries of the unseen ⁵²⁷ of secrets, and what is in the paradises of the gardens ⁵²⁸ of flowers. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood ⁵²⁹, the All-Encompassing of what is in the registers of the near ones ⁵³⁰ of remembrances, and what is in the lamps of the hearts of the knowers ⁵³¹ of lights. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the courtyards of Paradise of rivers, and what is in the spheres of orbits of moons. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in Paradise of chambers and palaces, and what is in its tents of veils and curtains. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the circles of remembrance ⁵³² of openings ⁵³³, and what is in the assemblies of knowledge of the subtle essences of hidden jewels. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the recitation of litanies ⁵³⁴ of special properties and benefits, and what is in the recitation of the hizbs ⁵³⁵ of manifestations and flashes. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the circle of existence of gifts and tables, and what is in the treasures of obedience of precious gifts and benefits. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what appears to the prophets of signs and the breaking of customs ⁵³⁶, and by which the scholars are supported of definitive proofs and testimonies. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is poured upon the hearts of the lovers of breaths ⁵³⁷, and what is returned to the elite of the enraptured ⁵³⁸ of ecstatic utterances ⁵³⁹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the bellies of notebooks of wisdoms, and what is in the treasuries of Allah's grace of generosity. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what draws the servant closer to his Lord of worship, and what is granted to the people of speciality ⁵⁴⁰ of the best and more. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what the servant is rewarded for of righteous deeds, and what he receives of the divine sciences ⁵⁴¹ in the spirit of the people of witnessing and conversations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what Allah has prepared for His beloved of blessings in the Hereafter, and what He has distinguished His chosen ones with of good character and pure traits. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in night prayer of spoils, and what is in supplication and entreaty of beauties and generosities. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the seas of glorification and sanctification of precious things, and what is bestowed upon the people of tahlil ⁵⁴² and takbir ⁵⁴³ of the most honorable garments. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the rising of felicities of glad tidings, and what is in the hidden things of existence of treasures. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in performing obligations of reward, and what is in neglecting legal rights of punishment. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in standing at the limits ⁵⁴⁴ of raising ranks, and what is in maintaining family ties of increase in lifespan and abundance of good deeds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in bringing joy to the believers of rewards, and what is in fulfilling the needs of the needy of benevolence and piety. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in supplication for the Muhammadan community ⁵⁴⁵ of perfection of sainthood ⁵⁴⁶, and what is in compassion for it and mercy for it of the secret of divine care. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the heart of the Furqanic surahs ⁵⁴⁷ of secrets of sciences, and what is in the engraving of the gnostic tablets ⁵⁴⁸ of subtleties of understandings. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the names and letters of special properties, and what the people of sainthood have attained of stations of proximity and distinction. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the jewels of the names and attributes, and what is in the tablets of the secret of erasure and establishment. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the worlds of spirits of flashes of determinations, and what is in the copy of the macrocosm of names of the named. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what is in the consciences of the unseen of subtle essences, and what the foundations of the Sharia have established of duties. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what the dawns of gnoses have revealed of pearls, and what Allah has prepared for those who devote themselves to His service of high stations. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, the All-Encompassing of what the pens of divine will have inscribed of dispositions, and what the intellects of the intelligent have composed of compositions.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood ⁵⁴⁹ encompassing all that is in the divine manifestations ⁵⁵⁰ of the gifts of descents ⁵⁵¹, and all that is in the openings and conclusions ⁵⁵² of the secrets of prophecies and messages. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing all that is in the cosmos of the strangest of strange things, and all that is under the veil of protection ⁵⁵³ of the marvels of creations and the wonders of wonders. So bless him, O Allah, and his noble beloved family, and his companions, the knights of struggle and the lions of battalions, a blessing by which You make us drink the sweetest springs and the most delightful drinks, and grant us thereby the greatest proximity and the loftiest gifts, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. How long are we in darknesses, while this is the sweetest spring, and this is the purest watering-place, and this is the most pleasant source, (210) and this is the door of our master, and this is his most wondrous house, and this is his highest secret, and this is his nearest opening, and this is the request and the aim, and love and the hoped-for and the need. The beloved of Allah, the light of generosity, the treasure of the secret and the quest, and he in whose tablet of His presence ⁵⁵⁴ the marvels of His secret are written, and he at whose door of might the aspirations of intellects seek. And the best of the noble messengers, the gilded embroidery. O best of those sent, whose Lord has brought near, and he who sees Him with the eye ⁵⁵⁵ is never veiled from Him. O he whom no person can fully praise, even if he elaborates. By you I seek victory, so grant me victory, for whom You help is never defeated. By you I seek intercession, so intercede for me, for from my sin to You is the escape. Upon you be the blessing of our Lord, accompanied by His peace. (211) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those upon the white pearl ⁵⁵⁶ of the station of inheritance ⁵⁵⁷ from the people of specificity and designation. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those upon the Mount of Conversation ⁵⁵⁸ of Mosaic nature, and those in the corridor of reviving the dead of Christic nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the Eye of Gathering ⁵⁵⁹ of spiritual nature, and those in the station of proximity of samadani ⁵⁶⁰ nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those upon the throne of the kingdom of light nature, and those in the abode of the caliphate of lordly nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those upon the carpet of might of solitary nature, and those in the court of the brought near of merciful nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the highest assembly of haymani ⁵⁶¹ nature, and those in the presences of holiness of the beacons of light of raghbuti ⁵⁶² nature, and those in the court of fear of rahbuti ⁵⁶³ nature. (212) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the howdahs of love of malakuti ⁵⁶⁴ nature, and those in the assemblies of proximity of rahmuti ⁵⁶⁵ nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the treasuries of the secret of jabaruti ⁵⁶⁶ nature, and those in the processions of pride of 'azamuti ⁵⁶⁷ nature. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the lowlands of trust of an ascetic, and those in the heights of devotion of a worshiper. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the ships of salvation of a pious one, and those in the places of good deeds of a pure one. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the chambers of light of a chosen one, and those in the Frequented House ⁵⁶⁸ of a saint. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the station of contentment of a pure one, and those in the stations of excellence of an intelligent one. (213) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the prayer niches of fear of monks, and those in the institutes of repentance of vigilant ones. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the battalions of struggle of brave ones, and those in the arena of success of knights. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the outposts of victory of a standing one, and those in the frontiers of patience of a fasting one. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the corners of mosques of a humble one, and those at the doors of need of a modest one. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the seas of remembrances of a swimming one, and those in the markets of good deeds of a profiting one. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the court of happiness of a righteous one, and those in the deserts of longing of a wandering one. (214) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the valleys of passion of a yearning one, and those in the fields of ecstasy of a preceding one. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the gardens of love of a longing one, and those in the taverns of love of a tasting one. So bless him, O Allah, and his family specially distinguished by the virtues of happiness and precedence, and his companions who relieved by their support the distresses of hardships and straits, a blessing by which You make us drink from the sources of the masters of meanings and realities, and unveil for us the subtleties of sciences and the intricacies of delicate matters, by Your grace, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds.

And Your generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. They lifted the veils from the full moons of perfection ⁵⁶⁹ Welcome, welcome to the people of beauty ⁵⁷⁰ They possessed me through their love and were pleased with me, A slave of servitude ⁵⁷¹, so I became the master among men. They treated me with their gentleness in my passion, So I was nurtured in the laps of endearment ⁵⁷². They blended me with the pouring of my wine of their love, Thus my state became manifest in the inner sight ⁵⁷³ of people. If they see this aversion ⁵⁷⁴ causing my existence to perish, They have mercy on me and bestow union ⁵⁷⁵. And if I stray from them, they guide me, Thus, thus are the masters ⁵⁷⁶. My masters, my masters, by my right with you, I am precious and dear to you. I have no beloved in my heart but you, My illusion ⁵⁷⁷ has died, and my imagination ⁵⁷⁸ has changed. By my life, upon you, O my cupbearers ⁵⁷⁹, Clarify the wine ⁵⁸⁰, for my intoxication is lawful for me. And circulate the cups among the drinking companions ⁵⁸¹, For all of creation is intoxicated by my state. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood ⁵⁸² encompassing the meanings in the Names and the Letters ⁵⁸³, and what He deposited of subtle sciences and allusions in the openings of the Surahs ⁵⁸⁴ and the Seven Oft-Repeated ⁵⁸⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing the gardens and meadows in the Hawamim ⁵⁸⁶ and the Tawasin ⁵⁸⁷, and the sources, inclinations, and allusions in the Qafat ⁵⁸⁸ and the Nunat ⁵⁸⁹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing the symbols in the Books of Revelation ⁵⁹⁰ and the treasures in the places of Descents ⁵⁹¹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing the presences of Majesty ⁵⁹² in the Throne ⁵⁹³, and the manifestations of Beauty ⁵⁹⁴ in the Footstool ⁵⁹⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing what is above the above ⁵⁹⁶ of light and splendor, and what is in the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary ⁵⁹⁷ of a lofty station and a desirable sight. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing the inscriptions in the Preserved Tablet ⁵⁹⁸ and the subtle meanings and precious secrets of the hidden mystery in the screeching of the pens ⁵⁹⁹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood encompassing those in the Supreme Scroll ⁶⁰⁰ of the Dominating Angels ⁶⁰¹, and those in the stations of radiance and light of the inspired elite ⁶⁰². So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the connecting poles ⁶⁰³, and his Companions, the acting scholars ⁶⁰⁴, a blessing by which our inner sight is illuminated with the light of the Clear Victory ⁶⁰⁵, and by which You make us among those whom You have granted the secret of Your speciality and bestowed upon them the rank of might and empowerment ⁶⁰⁶, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, O He who created this encompassing ocean from the light of His love, and surrounded its majestic sides with abundant favors, and made its overflowing streams flow with the secrets of His wisdom, and made it the locus of His lordly effusions and the outpouring of His mercy, and guarded its prophetic shores with the lights of His grandeur and the majesty of His awe, and made its Muhammadan territory ⁶⁰⁷ a circle encompassing the hidden things of His unseen and the worlds of His kingdom, I ask You, O my Lord, by his rank with You, and by the perfection of his purity and the honor of his lineage, and by the loftiness of his most exalted station and the height of his aspiration, to bless him and his family, his wives, and his descendants, and to kindle for me from Your knowledge a light that remains a lamp in the niche ⁶⁰⁸ of my heart, and to grant me a tongue that is a key to the secrets You have deposited in the treasuries of Your unseen, and not to make me a divulger of the benefits of Your wisdom that You have shown me, and to purify us in the pavilions of Your intimacy and delight us with the pleasure of witnessing You, bodies and souls, and to grant us from the affections of Your mercies that by which we inhale the coolness of Your pardon and the breezes of Your fragrant breaths, morning and evening, and guard us in the enclosure of Your Oneness, and spread over us the banner of Your might and support, and make our speech about You, our gaze towards You, our rising by You, our indication to You, our fear by You, our love in You, our cutting off to You, and our yearning for what is with You, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, indeed the discourse of my heart is disclosed to Your knowledge, hearing, and sight, and You are able to grant me a shyness from You that prevents me from speaking with other than You and returns me to speaking with You, and unite me with You, and separate me from other than You, in every state, O All-Knowing, O All-Hearing, O All-Seeing, O All-Powerful, O All-Great, O Most High, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Possessor of Might and Majesty, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. To You is my soul, my body, and my heart * And all of me is Your property, and I am passionately in love with You. And You are my beloveds in every state * So what joy if love for You is true for me. I have gone far, so my eye's tears are continuous * For You, and my heart is never free from grief. How I wish to travel to Mina ⁶⁰⁹ * But a calamity prevents me, and books do not avail. My friend, if you see the land of Yathrib ⁶¹⁰ * And the caravan has alighted at the Messenger of Allah, Then say to him: O Ahmad ⁶¹¹, O Muhammad, * A lover whose sin has kept him from the visitors. Perhaps your accepted rank ⁶¹² will remove his grief * For your rank, O Chosen One ⁶¹³, pleases the Lord. For you are the one without whom no man would have been created * Nor a sphere moving, nor a moist branch. Your face is radiant from love, radiant * The horizons, east and west, are illuminated by it. Upon his face the veil of the cloud is let down * So that the sun may not see him and split or dim. On the shore of the sea of light, Gabriel says: * This is my station, no blame on the truthful. He drew near and descended when he was plunged into light * Without how, but as the Lord willed. Gabriel manifested him to the angels in heaven * And they had been yearning for him before his mission. My God, by what he attained of the Two Bows' Length ⁶¹⁴, * Grant me refuge, for the torment of the Fire is severe. And be with me, for I fear Your punishment * And O Ahmad, help me when calamity strikes. And bless the best of mankind, Muhammad, * And his Companions, for love of them is obligatory. My God, You are the One who has imposed upon us the duties of supplication and desire, and obligated us to perform servitude and awe, and made all that a manifestation of the emblem of closeness ⁶¹⁵. So by You, the praiser praises You, and by You the lights shine and customs are broken, and by You the secrets flow and benefits appear. And You are Allah, the One, the Self-Sufficient ⁶¹⁶, the Unique, the Loving ⁶¹⁷, the Appreciative ⁶¹⁸, the Praiseworthy ⁶¹⁹, the Glorious ⁶²⁰, the Subtle ⁶²¹, the All-Aware ⁶²², the Truth ⁶²³, the Witness ⁶²⁴. So the tongue speaks with desire for You, and the heart trusts in what Your decrees have brought, and the secret...

Drowning in the seas of contentment and submission, the servant is sincere in his love and service to You. So I ask You, my Master, by Your true word and Your truthful promise, to bestow upon me the vision of this noble Prophet, for I am longing to see his exalted face, and am enamored and in love with his radiant beauty. ⁶²⁵ And I am inhaling and breathing in the fragrant breezes of his Ahmadic secret ⁶²⁶, and I am yearning and longing for the recognition from the Salsabil ⁶²⁷ of his Muhammadian sea. So pour upon me, O Allah, from the secret of his luminous secret, and give me to drink from the wine of his delicious and surpassing love, and perfume my being with the fragrance of his Mustafawi scent ⁶²⁸ and the breeze of his lingering musk. And illuminate my inner sight with the light of his shining prophethood, and gird me with the sword of his distinguishing Sharia ⁶²⁹, and strengthen me with the proof of his miraculous signs, and brighten my face with his mark, and make me among those whom You have inscribed in the register of his companionship and prior love. And grant me an abundant portion of his special intercession, and make me in this world and the next under his protective shade and his fluttering banner. And clothe me with the garment of his care, so that I may triumph over the lovers and boast before all of creation, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. ♦ By God, your face, O my beloved, is the eye of my existence and the spirit of my rapture. ♦ The sun of my day and the moon of my night, the light of my eyes and the comfort of my heart. ♦ All of time is joy for me, and pleasant living and the intoxication of my heart. ⁶³⁰ ♦ And I am perpetually drunk with beauty, and my drink is from the cups of witnessing. ♦ My comfort, my comfort, and my eye is the vision of You from my thought and my reproach. ♦ My festival is the drawing near, and my presence is the lifting of my veil. ♦ So, O my beloved, and my all, be as You wish for the lover. ♦ And cut off union, and annihilate and preserve, and have mercy, and set free, for in all You are sufficient for me. ♦ And You are my unseen, if You wish protection, and my goal, if You wish my causation. ♦ So do not threaten nor promise, for You are my peace and You are my war. ♦ You are my attributes and You are my essence, in the state of my distance and the state of my nearness. This is the description of the prophetic encompassing sea. ⁶³¹ O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, from whose pools the worlds of the secret have drunk, and the brides of the people of proximity have strolled in its gardens. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, from whose utterances the jewels of wisdom have scattered, and the eyes of intellects have been dazzled by the beauty of his glances. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, in whose deep waves the ships of the lovers have sunk, and the branches of the enraptured have swayed with the breeze of his drink. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, who perfumed the cosmos with the fragrance of his aroma, and filled the treasuries of the Malakut ⁶³² with the flood of his glory. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, who polished the mirror of inner sights with the manifestations of his lights, and revived the dead hearts with the gifts of his secrets. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, whose thread of love has strung those whom divine care has preceded, and with the breeze of his breaths has been perfumed those who are singled out for the honor of sainthood. ⁶³³ O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, from whose ongoing support the souls of the prophets and messengers have drawn, and from the lights of whose sciences the great saints and those brought near have borrowed. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, in the beauty of whose essence the intellects of lovers and beloved have been lost, and by the vision of whose essence the hearts of the distressed and the thirsty have found rest. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, through whose love the innermost secrets of the sincere and the certain have been purified, and by holding fast to the rope of his Sunna the lineage of the worshippers and ascetics has been validated. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, by hearing whose remembrances the souls of the lovers and the yearning have been delighted, and by the flash of the lightning of his beauty the states of the enraptured and the wayfarers have been agitated. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, by extracting the pearls of his hadiths the excellence of the knowers and the learned scholars has been magnified, and by devoting oneself to his service the spiritual supports of the praisers and the unique bearers have been honored. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, by the secret of whose care the feet of the firmly rooted and the arrived have been established, and in the perfections of whose attributes the sciences of the first and the last have vanished. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, from the sun of whose reality ⁶³⁴ the suns of those who turn to Allah and the travelers have shone, and from the light of whose Sharia the inner sights of those who stand at the limits and the repentant have been illuminated. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, from the spring of whose life the forerunners of states and the ecstatics have drunk, and from the flood of whose gifts the delegations of those who depart and those who arrive have been watered. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, on the carpet of whose presence the cups of grace have been passed around to the visitors and the seekers, and by sacrificing the self for His pleasure the needs of the desirous and the supplicants have been fulfilled. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, by roaming in whose streams the hearts of the strivers and the resolute are refreshed, and by picking up his pearls the eyes of the seekers and the hopeful are delighted. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the sea of prophethood, by affiliation with whom the masters of states and the great ones of the perfect bells ⁶³⁵ boast, and with the sword of whose protection the people of spiritual disposal and the eminent poles of the arrived fight.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by the blowing of whose pure spirit the thoughts of the perplexed and the bewildered find rest, and by the vision of his luminous vanguard the souls of the seekers of forgiveness and the annihilated are revived. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, at whose shore the prophets stood, and the ranks of the saints and the righteous waded, and by the abundance of blessings upon him, the worries of the despairing and the frightened are relieved. ²²⁷ So bless him, O Allah, and his pure and virtuous family, and his companions who praise the religion of Allah and support it, a blessing by which we become among his beloved, successful and secure, and among the followers of his Sunnah, the knowledgeable, and among those who arrive at his Pond, the drinkers, safe, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from whose precious sciences the men of revelation and inspiration emerged, and through whose spirituality the doors of tastes and understandings were opened to them. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by the lights of whose message the clouds of doubts and illusions were dispelled from them, and by the proofs of his guidance the paths of faith and Islam became clear to them. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, in the beauty of whose excellences the men of longing and yearning were lost, and by their love for him they attained the perfection of honor and noble moral qualities. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose supreme imamate is followed by the substitutes ⁶³⁶ and the trustworthy, and to his vanguards shining with auspiciousness and glad tidings the greatest scholars and the generous yearn. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, upon whose love ²²⁸ the men of preservation and sincerity and the people of true love agreed, and by seeing him the elite of the near ones and the people of manifest miracles and extraordinary secrets took pride. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, in whose descriptions the intellects of the blameworthy ⁶³⁷ and the unique individuals ⁶³⁸ who are spoken to about the unseen were bewildered, and by his gaze the innermost secrets of the lovers and the beloved were purified from the smoke of doubts and the filth of faults. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from whose Muhammadan ⁶³⁹ support the bells ⁶⁴⁰ and the pegs ⁶⁴¹ drank, and from the spring of his Ahmad ⁶⁴² secret the people of longing and affection drew. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from whose spirituality the divine ones ⁶⁴³ and the people of richness in Allah took, and by the diffusion of his Mustafawi ⁶⁴⁴ secret among them they obtained acceptance on earth and high status. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from the very essence of whose strength the Sufis and those addressed by the Truth sought support, and by adhering to his Sunnah they became among the greatest people of sainthood and truthfulness. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from the breast of whose realities the men of the unseen ⁶⁴⁵ and the people of wisdom impartation suckled, and by the secret of his care they disposed of the treasures ²²⁹ of the sovereign kingdom and the keys of mercy were placed in their hands. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, at whose most delightful watering-place the people of seclusion and solitude crowded, and by the reins of his guidance they led the servants to Allah and guided them to the path of goodness and rectitude. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, in the flood of whose gifts the strivers and the people of breaths ⁶⁴⁶ swam, and by the rising of the lights of his gnoses upon their hearts their special distinction over all other kinds and species became manifest. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, from the fragrance of whose breaths the breezes of the Adamic and Abrahamic beings were perfumed, and by the footsteps of his feet the angels of the seven heavens and the chiefs of the cherubim ⁶⁴⁷ were blessed. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, whose conduct was followed by those who stand with Allah and the men of awe and majesty, and by the vision of his radiant countenance the breaths of the people of intimacy and boldness ⁶⁴⁸ became sweet. ²³⁰ O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whose great character the people of compassion and tenderness were characterized, and by the exaltation of his rank the traditions came down and the Qur'an spoke. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, to whose service the men of high stations and ascents hastened, and by obeying his commands they ascended to the highest ranks and the loftiest degrees. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, in the gardens of whose excellences the men of the lower ⁶⁴⁹ and the disciples ⁶⁵⁰ strolled, and by the abundance of blessings upon him they were given of good things beyond what they imagine and desire. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by the mention of whose name the men of opening ⁶⁵¹ and the people of divine support were blessed, and by the praise of his noble qualities the insights of the people of inspirational revelation and luminous unveiling were illuminated. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by immersion in whose love those who cut themselves off from creation to the Truth were annihilated, and by seeking intercession through his rank the fearful were made safe from crushing and obliteration. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by the perfection of whose sainthood the two imams ⁶⁵² and the master of the time ⁶⁵³ disposed, and by their veneration of him and their closeness to him, whoever affiliated with them was protected from rejection and wrath.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whose exalted station ⁶⁵⁴ the rank of the stranger ⁶⁵⁵ and the master of the barzakh ⁶⁵⁶ was elevated, and by the honor of his care the aspirations of the people of speciality ⁶⁵⁷ were raised, so that their decree became unchangeable and uncancellable. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whose mighty authority the people of control ⁶⁵⁸ and the men of water ⁶⁵⁹ were honored, and by whose great station the spirituality of the people of the lofty station and the supreme veracity ⁶⁶⁰ was attached. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whose approved states the entities of the fasting ones, the standing ones ⁶⁶¹, and the pegs ⁶⁶² are guided, and by his looking at them with the eye of mercy, Allah repels affliction from the lands and the servants. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whose fulfillment of his lordly rights the people of care ⁶⁶³, the individuals ⁶⁶⁴, and the a'raf ⁶⁶⁵ are known, and by the elixir of his divine wisdom they are delivered from human follies and are adorned with beautiful attributes. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by the manifestation of his miracles the stations of the nobles ⁶⁶⁶, the deputies ⁶⁶⁷, and the righteous ⁶⁶⁸ were exalted, and by adhering to his law they attained the greatest pleasure of Allah in this abode and in that abode. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, by whom the distinction of the forty ⁶⁶⁹ who are upon the heart of Noah (peace be upon him) became renowned, and around whose Ahmadine kaaba ⁶⁷⁰ the prophets, messengers, and great angels circumambulated. So bless him, O Allah, and his noble and generous family, and his companions who cut off, with the proofs of his evidences, the manifestations of the worshippers of idols and statues, a blessing by which You preserve us in travel and residence, and suffice us against the calamities of time and the onslaught of nights and days, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. By the relation of the highest honor to you they became perfect, and by your attribute the description of beauty was exalted. And by beauty the love of the beautiful ones became sweet, but by your face all beauty became sweet. There is no glory of glory except that it is attributed to you, O you by whom every perfect description is excellent. I have become the beloved of the masters of intellects because of the love I have for you among every assembly. O masters who, by loyalty, gave their lover qualities whose kindness encompassed excellence. Strip your witnessing and face its manifestations, it will clothe you from its light those ornaments as garments. They are the beloved, my masters; whoever sees my face with his eyes sees their lights and becomes sweet. Whoever is a servant to him, his mastery becomes master; the servant of the beloved among them, O excellent ones. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of prophethood, who encompasses all kinds of virtues, excellences, and abundant gifts, and the secret that flows into the basins of the prophets, the chosen ones, and the elect righteous ones, whom the great ones of the saints and knowers specialized, extracting from him streams and rivers, and planting upon him, by the hands of divine knowledges, fragrant herbs and trees, so they pluck at every time from its light roses and flowers, and gather from the fruits of its gardens fruits and produce. Whoever eats from it attains exalted glory, firm footing, lofty honor, and pride; whoever shakes its palm trunks, ripe dates fall upon him, and he benefits from its delicious taste gifts and secrets; whoever seeks shade under its shadow and takes refuge in its presence, borrows from the suns of guidance light and illuminations, and wears from the garments of piety awe and dignity; whoever holds fast to its handle and wanders in the valleys of its love, the Truth causes to appear for him in the sky of proximity stars and moons, and gives him to drink from the cup of His affection and makes him taste the sweetness of His intimate conversation secretly and openly; whoever is blown upon by the breezes of its fragrance, and whoever is characterized by its lofty description, the Truth fulfills for him among the lovers needs and desires, and he is given what no eye has seen nor ear heard of openings and secrets. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, for whom You raised in the ranks of mastery degrees and measures, and his companions, whom You made for him upon the religion of truth helpers and supporters, a blessing by which one becomes among those whose hearts You filled with the sweetness of Your love and made the praise of this noble prophet their emblem and garment, and You dealt with them with Your pardon and forgiveness and made for them the highest paradise as a dwelling and abode, by Your bounty and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O you whose beauty is a mirror for every guidance, how fortunate am I, a lover striving in your love. By absolute beauty and beautiful kindness, all hearts became and remain under your captivity. Yes, your beauty is universal, so no one remains except that he is specially devoted to your love. By your overflow, my masters, bestow upon me, for from the ocean of prophethood and secrets is your overflow. From it you drank, and from it your life became pleasant, and by the guidance of its holy secret is your union. By it your ranks were exalted, just as your stations were honored and your fame spread. Your mastery became master, so glory is the abode of one who becomes for your sake a servant to your servant. Far be it from me to seek a substitute for your door; far be it from you that one guided by you should go astray. You have set up in my heart a dwelling, a path of every passion towards your house. And your love, by oath, suffices me as an oath divided among the dearest beauties of the people. If you are absent, I do not live after you a breath; may Allah not hide your face from my eye. O masters, establish by effacement your servant; may I not live a day seeing other than you in existence. And this is the description of the ocean of the chosen, elect Prophet, and the streams extracted from it that flow upon the saints, the righteous, and the virtuous, may Allah be pleased with them and grant them pleasure, and gather us with them in the garden of eternity and the abode of permanence.

O Allah, I ask You, my Master, by the sanctity of this Muhammadi-Ahmadi ocean ⁶⁷¹, whose secret gifts have flowed into the realms of understanding and the streams of intellects; and by his prophetic light which You concealed in the openings of surahs and verses, and in the jewels of the rational and transmitted sciences; and by the brilliance of the suns of his gnoses and graces which You caused to shine in the heaven of the proximate ones and the great masters; and by the flood of his Mawlawi ⁶⁷² effusion, through whose watering the gardens of lovers and the blossoms of the people of proximity and attainment have flourished; and by the penetration of his secret into the innermost hearts of the gnostics, so that their insights were illumined with the lights of opening and acceptance; and by the flow of his wine through the channels of the masters of states, the ecstatic ones, who then entered the presence of nearness and entrance; and by the fragrance of his scent wafting through the realms of mulk and malakut ⁶⁷³, perfuming the breaths of the people of fame and obscurity; and by the tables of his ongoing supplies in the human stages, by which the erring and ignorant are guided to the path of good deeds; and by the breezes of his breaths that open the heights of the branded ones, so that the spirits of the withered and emaciated are drawn to them; and by the sanctity of this circle extracted from the surge of his ocean flowing into the basins of the lovers absolutely and comprehensively; and by the sanctity of its encompassing circles around the stations of the people of speciality from the shaykhs, youths, and elders; and by what it contains of the firmly rooted awtad ⁶⁷⁴, the perfect a'raf ⁶⁷⁵, the connected aqtab ⁶⁷⁶, and the scholars who act according to what Allah has revealed in His Mighty Book, both branches and roots; and by the secret by which their spirits ascended to the higher world, and elevated them in the station of qaba qawsayn aw adna ⁶⁷⁷, and made them intercessors for Your servants at the time of descent into the grave and burial; and by the care of the majadhib ⁶⁷⁸, the people of takhrib ⁶⁷⁹, talwin ⁶⁸⁰, and the malamatiyya ⁶⁸¹ who conceal themselves under outward states, devoted to the worship of their Lord in hills and mounds; and by the elite of the elect, the proximate ones, and the saints who pray at night in corners of seclusion and caves, on mountain tops and in valleys and torrent beds; and by the honor of those whom You granted the secret of kun ⁶⁸², and whom You disposed in the world of being, and to whom You gave the keys of locks, and whose hearts You made upon the heart of every prophet and messenger; and by what You honored them with of various virtues and noble character traits, and awakened their aspirations from heedlessness of the remembrance of Allah, from negligence and forgetfulness; and by the dignity of this Ahmadi ocean before You, which is the source of their substance, the light of their guidance, the imam of their path in connection with You and attainment, the sultan of their kingdom, the pole of their circle, the pasture of their witnessing, the garden of their arrival, the watering-place of their approach in departure and return and coming back, the succor of their call, the qibla of their supplication, the tongue of their request, their entreaty and their pleading in reaching the goal and obtaining the desire: that You water my inner being from the flood of his delightful effusion and the honeyed nectar of his Kawthar ⁶⁸³; and perfume my breaths with the fragrance of his Muhammadi musk that wafted through the realms of mulk and malakut, perfuming the sleeves, collars, and hems of the people of goodness; and make me among the most beloved of Your elect and the nearest of Your friends, whom You have informed of the meanings of Your attributes and names, honored their stations among Your saints and pious ones, and purified them from engaging in obscenity, indecency, and meddling; and that You cause me, O Allah, to follow their paths, ascend their ascents, tread their ways, support me in holding fast to their firmest handhold and the connected rope of their love; and grant me exclusively what You have granted them of prophetic indications, unseen insights, and holy inspirational unveilings, by which I may read what is inscribed on the Preserved Tablet of the gifts of Your eternal secret, which neither ceases nor passes away; and grant me the rank of the elect, the stations of the prophets, and the caliphate of the prophets; and seat me in the assemblies of the chosen on the couches of proximity and nearness on the carpet of intimacy and the carried howdah of safety; and make me the descent of the secrets of the Word of Eternity, the source of the rains of generosity; and pour upon me the cups of the Lordly drink in the palaces of joy and congratulations; and secure me from every fearful matter and terrible event; and string me in the necklace of pearls from their order in that circle; and clothe me in the splendid garments of their resolve; and honor me with their widespread, successive miracles, by whose blessing every sick and ailing one is healed; and create me, O Allah, with the beautiful character traits, both inward and outward; and gird me with the sword of their protection and victorious, subduing, and overwhelming help; and protect me by the secret of Your care from the assault of every oppressor and the violence of every wretched, forsaken one; and purify me with the fragrant, lofty breaths of their scent; and direct me to You with the orientation of the beloved and accepted ones; and make the mirror of my witnessing from the eyes that gaze longingly at what is with You; and support me with Your Lordly success; and make my star shine in the heaven of Your high stations among their luminous stars; and grant me exclusively what You have granted them of the supreme veracity, the high and exalted rank, and the elevation of status in this world and the Hereafter, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. Far be it that a youth who clings to them should fail; far be it that a door of good should be closed to him. It is the right of a man who seeks refuge and belongs to them to be provided with every grace from their presence. Their division—enough for you of a division by them—and I am the youth who is more truthful than the right hand. Their followers on the Day of Resurrection before their Lord will not be terrified, will not drown, will not burn. And when the heart of a person is purified in love for them, and around them revolves the circle of affection, and he has effaced from himself and his existence, by their tongue he then speaks. So Allah, in guarding the hearts for them, perhaps from their treasure in times of need will spend. For their giving is abundant, great, and vast; other than it, if found, is scanty and narrow. For their seeker, his desire is above desire; and I am the guarantor, and what I say is verified. O joy for their lover when this absolute beauty is unveiled to his sight! O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the essence of the essences of spiritual spirits, the substance of the substances of corporeal forms, the ocean of prophethood extracted from the realities of the Merciful Names, the wonders of the Lordly attributes, the results of the gnostic subtleties, the delicacies of the Samadi ⁶⁸⁴ receptions, the flashes of the Ihsani ⁶⁸⁵ self-disclosures, the lights of the ocular unveilings, the precious gems of the cosmic creations, the perceptions of the luminous intellects, the unique pearls of the solitary jewels, the core of the core of the holy wisdoms, and the secret of the openings of the Quranic surahs. Alif Lam Mim. That is the Book ⁶⁸⁶—the symbol of holy indications. Alif Lam Mim. Allah, there is no god but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting ⁶⁸⁷—the locus of the jewels of the divine descents. Alif Lam Mim Sad ⁶⁸⁸—the pearl of prophetic beauties. Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Wise Book ⁶⁸⁹—the key to eternal happiness.

Ṭā Sīn ⁶⁹⁰ The conscience of the people of the secret and special intimacy, and the light of the insights of the people of spiritual witnessing. Yā Sīn ⁶⁹¹ The heart of the verses of the Furqān ⁶⁹² chapters, and the house of the honor of the might of eternity. Ṣād ⁶⁹³ and the Qur’an The crown of Muṣṭafawī ⁶⁹⁴ virtues, and the unique pearl of the heavenly books. Qāf ⁶⁹⁵ and the Qur’an The qibla ⁶⁹⁶ of the Throne-like spirits, and the Ka‘ba ⁶⁹⁷ of the holy worlds. Ḥā Mīm ⁶⁹⁸ ‘Ayn Sīn Qāf ⁶⁹⁹ The pearl of Muḥammadan beauty, and the robe of Aḥmadī ⁷⁰⁰ perfection. Nūn ⁷⁰¹ and the Pen The inscription of the Tablet of the sciences of Oneness and Unicity, and the manifestation of the effulgences of the lights of Majesty and Beauty. So glory be to Him who raised his rank on the carpet of His Mawlawī ⁷⁰² Presence, and made his full moon shine on the horizon of the ultimate end, both sensory and spiritual, and exalted his mention in the circle of His sovereign kingdom, and preferred his spirit over all other spirits, both corporeal and luminous, and magnified his station at the station of Qāba Qawsayn ⁷⁰³, and made him a mirror for the manifestation of His Essence and His lordly attributes, and chose him from the lights of His Majesty and created him in His All-Merciful form. So, O Allah, bless him and his family, the springs of gnostic sciences, and his Companions, possessors of lofty morals and stations of excellence, with a blessing that realizes us through it with the reality of the realities of faith, and bestows upon us through it the secret of the gifts of Yemeni wisdoms, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the lamp of the poles ⁷⁰⁴ and the model of the excellent chosen ones, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of the Basmala ⁷⁰⁵ and the secret of the Opening of the Book ⁷⁰⁶. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the beloved of the All-Merciful and the imam of the fixed entities ⁷⁰⁷, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Baqara and Āl ‘Imrān. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the spirit of existence and the treasury of generosity and munificence, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Nisā’ and al-‘Uqūd ⁷⁰⁸. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the pearl of the shells and the perfect one of virtues and attributes, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-An‘ām and al-A‘rāf. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the lofty in aspiration and rank, the noble in clan and companionship, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Anfāl and al-Tawba. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the master of the eminent imams and the commander of the armies of the noble prophets, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Yūnus and Hūd, peace be upon them. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the source of gratitude and praise, the house of sublime honor and glory, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Yūsuf, peace be upon him, and al-Ra‘d. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the sword of might and victory, the crown of care and pride, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Ibrāhīm, peace be upon him, and al-Ḥijr. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the rising star of good fortune and glad tidings, the accepted intercessor in this world and the next, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Naḥl and al-Isrā’. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the choicest of the noble messengers, the great in worth and station, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Kahf and Maryam, peace be upon them. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the pole ⁷⁰⁹ of the pure and the pious, the support of the righteous and the saints, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Ṭā Hā and al-Anbiyā’. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the elite of the great ones brought near, the beacon of the guided who are certain, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Ḥajj and al-Mu’minūn. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the lamp of the worlds, the source of divine ⁷¹⁰ sciences and gnosis, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Nūr and al-Furqān. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the element of sainthood, pure in branches and roots, the path of guidance, pure in word and deed, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Shu‘arā’ and al-Naml. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the bride of the domains of the Kingdom ⁷¹¹, the key to the treasuries of Mercy ⁷¹², and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ and al-‘Ankabūt. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the embroidery of the garment of faith, the clear proof and evidence, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Rūm and Luqmān. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the core of intellects, the dear one of family and companions, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Sajda and al-Aḥzāb. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the fragrant garden of virtues, the rain cloud of blessings, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Saba’ and Fāṭir. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad, the pillar of the firm religion, the light of the clear victory, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Yā Sīn and al-Yaqṭīn ⁷¹³. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the mine of sublime honor and pride, the vast shelter supported by might and triumph, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Ṣād and al-Zumar. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the succor of mankind, the remover of distress and hardship, the orator of the prophets standing alone in the Station of Praise ⁷¹⁴, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Ghāfir and Ḥamīm al-Sajda ⁷¹⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the possessor of lofty deeds and praiseworthy qualities, the locus of clear signs and witnessed generosities, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Shūrā and al-Zukhruf, the well-known. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the noble in qualities and high attributes, the generous in dispositions and lofty morals, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Dukhān and al-Jāthiya. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the dawn of Majesty and Beauty, the outpouring of virtues and gifts, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Aḥqāf and al-Qitāl ⁷¹⁶. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the crescent of festivals and joys, the sultan of processions and presences, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat al-Fatḥ and al-Ḥujurāt. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the qibla of the people of earth and heavens, the master of those who have passed and those who are to come, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Sūrat Qāf and al-Dhāriyāt. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muḥammad and to the family of our master Muḥammad, the musk

of the collars and necks, and pure of character and lineage, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Tur, al-Najm, and al-Inshiqaq. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the secret of the comprehensive words of truth, the possessor of dazzling miracles and radiant lights, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Rahman and al-Waqi'ah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the tongue of eloquence and clarity, the interpreter of the unseen sciences and the secrets of the Qur'an, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Hadid, al-Mujadilah, al-Hashr, and al-Mumtahanah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the best of those who raised the beacon of Islam and exalted it, and obliterated the religions of disbelief and lowered it, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Saff and al-Jumu'ah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the commander of doing good and acting with the right hand, and the prohibitor of belittling the Sunnah and being negligent, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Munafiqun and al-Taghabun. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the locus of sovereignty and honor, the pole of majesty and exaltation, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Talaq and al-Tahrim. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the possessor of the place of prayer and knowledge, the key to the treasuries of generosity and munificence, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Mulk, Nun, and al-Qalam. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the mountain of glory with lofty stations, the path of happiness with clear ways, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Haqqah and al-Ma'arij. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the station of blessing, to which hearts yearn and long, the praised movement, for which lovers weep and groan from the excess of their passion, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah Nuh (peace be upon him) and al-Jinn. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the messenger of mercy calling to the facilitated path of good, the confidant of the secret entrusted with the glad-tidings of the unseen revelation, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Muzzammil and al-Muddaththir. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the crown of the message, lofty in rank and station, the clear proof mentioned in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Furqan, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Qiyamah and al-Insan. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the watering-place of arrival that quenches the thirst of hearts, the garden of visitors who remember their Lord in private and in public, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Mursalat and al-Naba'. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the descendant of the noble, pure in character and soul, the physician of ailments who purifies hearts from the filth of sins and impurity, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Nazi'at and 'Abasa. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the light of lights, the master of the pious, the most generous of those over whom night has fallen and day has dawned, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Takwir and al-Infitar. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the master of the worlds absolutely, the full moon of perfect radiance, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Mutaffifin and al-Inshiqaq. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the dazzling one of miracles and marvels, the star of light by which one is illuminated in the west and the east, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Buruj and al-Tariq. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the degree of radiant glory, the lofty rank of might and honor, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-A'la and al-Ghashiyah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the book of revelation, sound in transmission and chain, the messenger of truth guiding to the path of good and right guidance, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Fajr and al-Balad. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the pious, pure in collar and hem, the chosen one, protected from desires and inclinations, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Shams wa Duha and al-Layl. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the festival of joys by which souls are delighted and rejoice, the garden of breezes in whose meadows hearts graze and roam, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Duha and Alam Nashrah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the diwan of sciences, wonderful in style and arrangement, the lamp of understandings that dispels from hearts the darkness of ignorance and gloom, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Tin and al-'Alaq. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the delight of thoughts, the comfort of eyes, the cultivation of breasts, and the sweetness of tongues, the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah Inna Anzalnahu fi Laylat al-Qadr and Lam Yakun. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the possessor of pleasing states, healing words, a bountiful table of generosity, and successive blessings, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah Idha Zulzilat al-Ard and al-'Adiyat. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the beauty of the time and age, the result of the secret of recitation and remembrance, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surah al-Qari'ah, Alhakum al-Takathur, and al-'Asr.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Sultan of the blessed kingdom, the army and the host, and a fortress for the security of the Remover ⁷¹⁷ from hearts the assaults of greed and recklessness, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of the Surahs: Al-Humazah, Al-Fil, and Quraysh. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the pearl of radiant beauty and appearance, the sun of high stations, truthful in insight and report, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surahs Al-Ma'un and Al-Kawthar. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the possessor of the reins of prohibition and command, the noble of character, fragrant of scent and diffusion, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surahs Al-Kafirun and An-Nasr. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the Imam of the station of the people of proximity and special selection, the Kaaba of circumambulation for the elite and the chosen, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Surahs Al-Masad and Al-Ikhlas. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the light of insight for the intelligent and wise, the center of the circle of the pegs ⁷¹⁸ and the bells ⁷¹⁹, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of the two Surahs of refuge ⁷²⁰, "Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Daybreak" ⁷²¹ and "Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind." So bless him, O Allah, and his pure family, branches and kinds, and his fragrant companions, souls and breaths, with a blessing by which You protect us in ourselves, our families, and our offspring from every harm and distress, and by which You purify our limbs from the filth of desires and all impurities, and by which You preserve us from the plots of Satan and the evil of the whispering insinuator ⁷²² who whispers into the breasts of mankind, from among the jinn and mankind, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. In every opening ⁷²³ of speech that is considered, True praise is due to the one sent with Al-Baqarah. In Al 'Imran, his mission became widespread; Their men and women sought to verify his news. He extended to mankind a table ⁷²⁴ of His bounty, Universal, not limited to the cattle ⁷²⁵. The recognitions ⁷²⁶ of His mercy—whenever hope alights upon them, The spoils ⁷²⁷ of that generosity rush forth. Through him Jonah sought intercession when he called in repentance In the sea, amidst darknesses ⁷²⁸ that were dense. Hud and Joseph—how many fears were made safe through him, And the sound of thunder will not terrify from his mention. The substance of Abraham's prayer was fulfilled, and in The House of God and the Stone ⁷²⁹ he sought His trace. A community whose remembrance is like the buzzing of bees In every region—glory be to the One who created them. In the cave ⁷³⁰ of His mercy, people have sought refuge, and through him Is the glad tidings of the son of Mary ⁷³¹ in the Gospel, well-known. He named him Ta-Ha ⁷³² and distinguished the prophets over The pilgrimage to the place which, for his sake, was inhabited. People have succeeded through the light which they witnessed From the light of his Criterion ⁷³³ when its brilliance shone. The greatest eloquent poets fell silent, Like ants when their ears heard his Surahs. Sufficient for them is the Story ⁷³⁴ and the Spider ⁷³⁵ came When he wove a web at the cave's entrance, concealing it. In Rome ⁷³⁶, his affair spread long ago, and through him Luqman ⁷³⁷ matched the pearls he scattered. How many prostrations ⁷³⁸ in the shade of the Confederates ⁷³⁹ did they perform, Their swords, so their Lord showed them lessons. The arrows of the Originator ⁷⁴⁰ of the seven high [heavens] in generosity, By him whom He made famous among the messengers in Ya-Sin ⁷⁴¹. In war, the angels lined up supporting him In Sad ⁷⁴², the assembly of banners, defeating their troops. To the Forgiver ⁷⁴³ of sin, in His detailing ⁷⁴⁴ are images That have detailed meanings beyond enumeration. His counsel ⁷⁴⁵ is to abandon the world and its ornament, Like smoke ⁷⁴⁶ that blinds the eye of whoever looks at it. Mighty is his white law ⁷⁴⁷ when he came To the sand dunes ⁷⁴⁸ of Badr, and God's army was present. Then after battle came victory ⁷⁴⁹ continuously, And the chambers ⁷⁵⁰ of religion became victorious. By Qaf ⁷⁵¹ and the Scatterers ⁷⁵², God swore That what he said is true, as he mentioned. On the Mount ⁷⁵³, Moses saw the star of his fortune, And the horizon was split in veneration for him, its moon. He was taken by night ⁷⁵⁴ and attained from the Merciful the Event ⁷⁵⁵ Of proximity, in which his Lord established his sight. He showed him things that iron cannot withstand, And in the Disputation ⁷⁵⁶ of the disbelievers, He granted him victory. On the Gathering ⁷⁵⁷, the day of testing of creation, he accepts In a row of messengers, each following his path. A hand by which pebbles glorify God, So accept, when the truth comes to you, what He decreed. The world was seen embracing him; She obtained a divorce, and he did not cast a glance at her. His prohibition of love for the world and his desire For the flower of dominion is true according to those who mention it. In Nun ⁷⁵⁸, praises have been confirmed for him by what God praised him with when He showed us his conduct. By his rank, Noah asked in his ship For a good deliverance, while the waves of the sea overwhelmed him. O Enwrapped ⁷⁵⁹, following the truth, he will not abandon it; A prophet came to whom this high station is reserved. O Enshrouded ⁷⁶⁰, intercessor on the Day of Resurrection, has All reports about his resurrection been recorded? In the Sent Forth ⁷⁶¹ from the books, the news became clear Of a day when the sinner frowned at what terrified him. His gentle favors, the Pluckers ⁷⁶² of oppression—sufficient for you in His heaven, and they called woe to the wicked. When the sun of that day was folded up ⁷⁶³ and split ⁷⁶⁴, From the night-visitor ⁷⁶⁵ of meteors and spheres scattered. And for the sky, a splitting ⁷⁶⁶, and the constellations ⁷⁶⁷ emptied, And has there come to you the report of the Basin ⁷⁶⁸ when he made it flow? And glorify the name of the One who interceded for him in creation, And the sun is summarized from his radiant light. Like the dawn ⁷⁶⁹ in the guarded city ⁷⁷⁰ is his forehead; We expand ⁷⁷¹ for you the speech about his fragrant reports. And the night ⁷⁷² like the forenoon ⁷⁷³ when it shone in it—did not To him in time, and read ⁷⁷⁴, you will discern his news. And if he called the fig ⁷⁷⁵ and the olive, they would hasten In pride; man has not measured his worth. On the Night of Decree ⁷⁷⁶, how much honor did he attain? A land ⁷⁷⁷ famous for the Calamity ⁷⁷⁸ of fear. How many times was it shaken ⁷⁷⁹ by the chargers ⁷⁸⁰ for him In every age? So woe to those who disbelieve. For him is abundance ⁷⁸¹ and signs that have become famous Over Quraysh ⁷⁸², and the Spirit ⁷⁸³ came when He commanded him. Have you not seen the sun, in confirmation of him, was detained? By a river ⁷⁸⁴ sent forth in his Basin, flowing. You were shown that if the God of the Throne honored him, From his Basin, then the hand of the loser ⁷⁸⁵ is cut off. And the disbelievers, when people come, are driven away; For the dawn ⁷⁸⁶, you made the people hear, boasting. Sincerity ⁷⁸⁷ of his praises is my occupation; how many a dawn ⁷⁸⁸ has split And his companions, especially the ten among them. The purest blessings upon the Guide and his family: Uthman, then Ali, destroyer of the disbelievers. Their truthful one, Umar the Discerner ⁷⁸⁹, their third: Ubayda ⁷⁹⁰ and Ibn Awf ⁷⁹¹, the tenth of the ten. Sa'd ⁷⁹², Sa'id ⁷⁹³, Zubayr ⁷⁹⁴, Talha ⁷⁹⁵, and Abu And Ja'far ⁷⁹⁶ and Aqil ⁷⁹⁷, noble masters, the best. And Hamza ⁷⁹⁸, then Abbas ⁷⁹⁹, and their family, The purest praise I will always offer, pearls. And in Khadija ⁸⁰⁰ and al-Zahra ⁸⁰¹ and what she bore, Their innocence became famous in remembrance. From all his wives, he was pleased and preferred more than And his guided companions, the righteous masters. Those are the people of the Chosen One's family, and sufficient Is the garden from whose buds flowers are scattered. I swear I will continue to offer them the fragrance of my praise. And this is the description of the Sea of Prophethood, filled with the subtleties of the divine sciences ⁸⁰² and the secrets of the glorious and sublime Furqanic ⁸⁷ Surahs.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the reality of the realities of the human forms of creatures, the gathering of the subtleties of gnostic gifts and divine secrets, the sea of the message filled with the subtleties of the ladunni sciences ⁸⁰³ and the celestial treasures, the alchemy of the treasures of the treasuries of the secrets of the unseen of the jabarut ⁸⁰⁴, the breath of the precious fragrances of the holy mercies, the place of manifestation of the rays of the light of the subbuhi ⁸⁰⁵ lights, the spring of tasnim ⁸⁰⁶ of the sweetest and most delightful sources and resources, the imam of the lofty ranks and high stations, the secret of the meanings of the good words and the bestowed openings, and the presence of the lordly generosity, whose rank Allah has exalted and magnified greatly, and the gardens of blessings which He adorned with the light of His most holy beauty, so they became for His beloved and saints a paradise and bliss, and He looked upon them with an eye of love, so they became for His chosen ones and people of His speciality a noble season and a noble witnessing place, and He manifested Himself to them with the lights of His names and attributes, so they acquired thereby an eternal and supported glory and a great standing, and He surrounded them with His greatest pleasure, so He brought to them those for whom happiness had preceded, and they attained through love for them a pure pride, a complete honor, and an exaltation, and He praised their ahmadi ⁸⁰⁷ sultanate, and the green muhammadi ⁸⁰⁸ wrote it with His saying in His Book: "Indeed Allah was pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you under the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down tranquility upon them and rewarded them with a near victory and much booty which they will take. And Allah is ever Mighty, Wise." [Quran 48:18-19] Secrets of qayyumiyya ⁸⁰⁹, and everlasting sciences, and openings that descended from the treasuries of the unseen gifts of rahmutiyya ⁸¹⁰, "It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion. And sufficient is Allah as Witness. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." [Quran 48:28-29a] The possessor of unparalleled and peerless virtues and glories, which cannot be encompassed by modality nor accept accompaniment, "And those who are with him are severe against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves" [Quran 48:29b] with a lordly mercy and a rahmani ⁸¹¹ affection, "You see them bowing and prostrating, seeking bounty from Allah and pleasure" [Quran 48:29c]. Spiritual persons and luminous forms, "Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration" [Quran 48:29d]. Accepted samadi ⁸¹² deeds and pleasing fardani ⁸¹³ states, "That is their description in the Torah" [Quran 48:29e]. A divine testimony, written by the hand of eternal power and the pen of holy lights, on the parchment of the secret and speciality, "And their description in the Gospel is like a plant which produces its offshoots" [Quran 48:29f]. By Abu Bakr, the manifestation of the secret of the muhammadi ⁸⁰⁸ caliphate, and the gatherer of the word of Islam with proofs of decisive evidences, "and strengthened it" [Quran 48:29g]. By Umar, the sword of truth supported by the majestic awe of overpowering, and the glory of Islam and the helper of the Islamic nation, "and it became thick" [Quran 48:29h]. By Uthman, the source of greatness and lofty gifts, and the imam foremost in the processions of glories and high merits, "and it stood straight on its stem" [Quran 48:29i]. By Ali, the gate of the city of the sciences of ladun ⁸⁰³, and the sea of gnoses and ladunni gifts, and the reviver of the path of the ahmadi ⁸⁰⁷ sharia and the prophetic sunna, to enrage by them the disbelievers, the people of denial and obstinacy, and the corrupt opinions and base states, "Allah has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward" [Quran 48:29j]. So glorified is He who adorned existence with them and made them stars by which guidance is sought in the darknesses of land and sea, and supported His religion through them and guided by them to a straight path, and chose them for the companionship of His Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and added them to him with an addition of specification, as an honor and veneration for him, and said concerning them: "He loves them and they love Him, humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, striving in the way of Allah and not fearing the blame of any blamer. That is the bounty of Allah which He gives to whom He wills. And Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing." [Quran 5:54] What a lordly care that preceded for this victorious group, supported by the mustafawi ⁸¹⁴ glory, and the stage of ihsani ⁸¹⁵ manifestations, and the sun of the muhammadi ⁸⁰⁸ sharia of faith. So bless, O Allah, him and his family, the rising places of the luminous pearly stars, and his companions, the springs of the great gnostic secrets, and the imams of the lofty holy ranks, a blessing that creates in us his prophetic samadi ⁸¹² character, and helps us thereby to fulfill the duty of his mustafawi ⁸¹⁴ fardani ⁸¹³ rights, and preserves us through its blessing in ourselves and our loved ones from every trial, tribulation, and calamity, present and severe, and gathers us through its favor with the people of his nation and his saved, victorious, and successful group, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. For Muhammad is the opening of existence through his light, And through his secret, and over all he advanced. His prophethood was while Adam was a form In water and clay, formed from them. And through him the existence of the cosmos from non-existence, for he Filled time with favor and generosity. A moon, souls are attached to his love, As if he is in every heart a tent. May Allah bless him as long as the east wind blows, Or thunder moans in the darkness and shows mercy. And upon Abu Bakr, for he preceded creation In virtue and belief, the first to submit. The arm of the Messenger with his soul and his wealth, Blessed is he, how pious and merciful! And upon the young lion Umar, who In Allah's cause resolved with his sword what was ambiguous. The opening of openings, and his blows left The trace of misguidance ruined and demolished. And upon the martyr of the house, Uthman, from Whose light the angels of heaven felt shy. About whom was revealed: "Is one who is devoutly obedient" [Quran 39:9], He who compiled the firm Book. And upon the father of the two grandsons, Haydara ⁸¹⁶, who Never ceased in war to be the fierce lion. And upon Hasan and his namesake Hasan, who Were named after their mother, exalted and their father. And the family and noble companions, for they are Stars when the night of calamities darkens. Those who smile when faces are frowning, And who advance when the leader holds back. They made their lives a sanctuary for the religion, Which was an upright religion. Excellent are those youths! How worthy they were of that and how foremost! They were encompassed by the blessings of Ahmad ⁸⁰⁷, who Excelled all people, Arab and non-Arab. Upon him be Allah's blessings throughout time, as long as The lightning of the two sandy hills smiles. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the locus of...

Of magnification and majesty, and the truthful tongue clear in proof and evidence, and the sea of the message ⁸¹⁷ filled with the lights of revelation and the secrets of the message. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the house of care and pride, the sultan of the kingdom supported by victory and triumph, and the sea of the message filled with the lights of sciences and the subtleties of remembrance. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the spirit of spirits and essences, the rising of auspiciousness and blessings, and the sea of the message filled with the lights of openings ⁸¹⁸ and the meanings of names and attributes. 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O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the master of masters, the key to the doors of good deeds and happiness, and the sea of the message filled with the secret of eternal power and the tracing of the pens of will upon the tablets of existent things. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the garden of perfect and complete beauties, the possessor of the straight path and the most upright religion, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your greatest and most magnificent name and the flow of Your most blessed and comprehensive goodness. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the pole of sainthood ⁸²¹, the pure and most purified, the path of guidance, the clear and most luminous, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your great and greatest name and the effusion of Your strong and most mighty bestowal. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the element of established and connected honor, the light of precedence, the first and foremost, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your majestic and most majestic name and the secret of Your great revealed book. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the eye of eyes and the affair of affairs, the secret of the word 'Be, and it is', and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your stored and hidden name and Your preserved and guarded knowledge. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the opening of Your Furqanic ⁸²² book, the bride of Your mighty and eternal presences, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your divine and merciful name and the perfection of Your sublime and lordly opening. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved who manifested Your gratitude and praise, Your chosen one who spread throughout the worlds Your praise and glory, and the sea of the message filled with the light of every name by which You have named Yourself, or revealed in Your book, or taught to any of Your creation, or kept to Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen with You. So bless him, O Allah, and his family with a blessing by which You grant us Your guidance and rectitude, and bestow upon us Your gift and support, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, the chosen and selected, Your great messenger of high station and rank, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your names, radiant with lights, majestic in remembrance, overflowing with gifts and secrets, and they are: Allah, Allah, Allah, the One, the Subduer, the King, the Oft-Forgiving, the Doer of what He wills, the Creator of night and day, the Illuminator of darkness, celestial spheres, suns, and moons, the Grower of plants, the Eternal in constancy, the Sender of rains, the Sender of winds as heralds before His mercy, the One who makes leaves appear on branches and trees, the Reviver of dead hardened hearts, the Polisher of the mirror of insights and eyesights, the Remover of distress and hardships, the Dispeller of worries and sorrows, the One who holds the sky from falling upon the earth except by His permission, the Opener of goodness and generosity for those fasting and those standing at His door in humility and brokenness. Exalted is His majesty beyond what thoughts can encompass His holy perfection, or eyes can perceive His sacred essence. 'Surely, His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah, the Lord of the worlds.' 'So blessed is Allah, the best of creators.' 'And your Lord creates what He wills and chooses.' I cannot enumerate praise upon Him; He is as He has praised Himself. He bewilders the minds of the enraptured in the fields of His might, drowns the souls of the knowers in the seas of His love, enraptures the thoughts of the inspired in the wonders of His wisdom, purifies the eyes of the contemplators in the marvels of His craftsmanship, and annihilates the secrets of those who have reached Him in the lofty heights of His pride and greatness. 'He is Allah, there is no god but He; so call upon Him, making religion pure for Him. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.' You have manifested, O King of kings, to whom belongs in His creation the high and penetrating command. You have manifested beyond likeness, beyond opposite, and beyond what a contending and opposing claimant asserts.

You are the True God and the Might, Who * takes hold of hearts and forelocks. O Guide of the bewildered, I am bewildered; * many paths and passages have come upon me. O Succor of those whose sorrows have become great, * nay, all my sorrows I return to You ⁸²³. O Security of those who fear the vicissitudes of their time, * I, at Your door, with brokenness, take refuge. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the sun of the sphere of the heaven of the highest might, the bride of the divine presences ⁸²⁴ manifested upon the carpet of Qāb Qawsayn ⁸²⁵ or nearer, the sea of the message filled with the light of the lofty attributes and the most beautiful names, the comprehensive divine wisdoms ⁸²⁶ and the goodly beautiful words, and the jewels of the holy remembrances ⁸²⁷ exquisite in wording and meaning, which are: Allah, Allah, Allah, the Attractor of the souls of the lovers with the lights of His love, the All-Merciful, the Illuminator of the hearts of the yearners with the perfection of His regard, the Compassionate, the Supporter through His mercy ⁸²⁸ of the innermost secrets of those who are attached to Him and who devote themselves to His service, the Sovereign of the states of His near servants, and the Seizer of their forelocks to the carpet of His presence. The All-Holy, the Purifier of the inner beings of those who turn to Him from the filth of otherness, and the Strengthener of them with the secret of His wisdom. The All-Peace, the Protector of the station of those who belong to Him from the plots of Satan and the onslaughts of his domination. The All-Faithful, the Truthful in His promise, and the Giver of security to whoever seeks refuge in Him from the torment of the grave and its darkness. The All-Dominator, the Witness, the Overseer of what is in the hidden secrets ⁸²⁹ and the innermost consciences, and He does not disgrace any of His servants for the sins they have committed. The All-Mighty, the Far from perception, He whom whoever seeks might through Him is not wronged, and who enters the ranks of the people of His affiliation. The All-Compeller, the Mender of the fracture of whoever flees to Him and relies on His aid and victory for his affairs; and it is said: the Mender of the brokenness of those whose hearts are broken through the beautiful hidden words and the emotions of His mercy. The All-Proud, described with the attributes of majesty and beauty, the Breaker with the sword of His wrath of the back of whoever refuses His oneness and is arrogant towards His worship. The Creator, the Inventor of the bodies of corporeal and spiritual existents in the best form and the most beautiful composition through His dazzling power and the perfection of His craftsmanship. The Maker, the Preparer of every possible thing for what it was created for, and the Healer of their inner beings from the disease of ignorance and the Rescuer of them from the bondage of its servitude. The Fashioner of the motives of longing in the hearts of His saints and the Quencher of their thirst with the gifts of His secret and the realities of His knowledge. ﴿To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names; all that is in the heavens and the earth glorify Him, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.﴾ Most Holy, All-Holy, All-Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit ⁸³⁰. Glory be to the Creator of the Throne ⁸³¹ and the Footstool ⁸³² and the Pen ⁸³³ and the Tablet ⁸³⁴. Glory be to the Creator of Paradise and Hellfire, death and life, body and spirit. Glory be to the Lord of everything, its Provider, the Sovereign of everything, its Creator. Most Holy, Most Holy, All-Holy, All-Holy, Lord of the higher and lower worlds, and Creator of those in the earths and the heavens. “The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein glorify Him, and there is not a thing but glorifies His praise.” “Blessed is He in Whose hand is the dominion, and He is over all things competent.” “Say: O Allah, Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and take sovereignty away from whom You will; You exalt whom You will and abase whom You will; in Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent.” “Every day He is upon some matter.” And no matter occupies Him from another matter, and He has no partner in His dominion, nor any opponent, nor any matter. Exalted is His essence above the subtleties of understandings, and sanctified are His attributes above the imaginations of fancies. He is not questioned about what He does, and the tongues of praisers cannot fulfill the gratitude for His blessings throughout the passage of nights and days. O Allah, I ask You, O my Lord, by the sanctity of those who glorify You in the depths of darkness, and by the sanctity of those who persist in Your remembrance and supplicate before You while people are asleep, and by the sanctity of those who stand at Your boundaries, striving for Your pleasure, and who fulfill Your right with complete fulfillment, and by the sanctity of those who enjoin good and forbid evil, and who guard their tongues from obscenity and idle speech, and by the sanctity of those who follow Your Sunnah and preserve Your Law, and who restrain themselves from engaging in ambiguities and consuming the unlawful, and by the care of Your beloved, our master Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, the master of mankind, the full moon, the refuge of Islam, the sanctuary of adherence—upon him and his family and companions be the best of prayers and the purest of peace—that You fashion in our hearts the realities of divine success, and make shine in the unseen of our identity the lights of affirmation, and guide us through You to You, so that we may witness with the light of our inner sight and the mirror of our innermost secrets what the people of the secret and verification witnessed, of unveilings from the hearts of the troops of veils and the trenches of darkness, and that You support us with a spirit from You as You supported them, and seat us on the carpet of proximity to You as You seated them, and make us hear the delightful discourse of Your address in the presence of Your intimate conversation, as You made them hear from the subtleties of Your inspirations illuminated by the lights of revelation and inspiration, and make us find intimacy with You in the chambers of Your intimacy as You made them find intimacy, and mention us among the elite of Your beloved as You mentioned them with Your concerns that announce the perfection of honor and the loftiness of station, and make us feel estranged from other than You as You made them feel estranged, and single us out for Your worship as You singled them out, and sanctify our souls in the enclosures of Your holiness as You sanctified their souls in the highest ‘Illiyyīn ⁸³⁵ and the Abode of Peace, and refresh us with the breeze of Your affection as You refreshed them, and give us to drink from Your fullest cup of the flow of Your purest secret as You gave them to drink, O Possessor of Majesty and Honor, and annihilate us in the manifestations of Your self-disclosures as You made them disappear, and annihilate us in You from all else so that we neither see nor hear nor perceive except what is revealed to us from Your secret, O Sovereign, O All-Knowing, and bring us near to You with the nearness of the beloved, and make us traverse the paths of the attracted ones ⁸³⁶, who were not content with anything other than the vision of Your Essence, and the enjoyment of the descriptions of Your perfections as befits Your transcendence and sanctification in the might of Your majesty and greatness, O Possessor of bounty and grace. And make us, O Allah, among those whose aspiration is in the unseen of the unseen and the secret of the secret, so they knew what they knew of the secrets and realities, and they traversed what they traversed of the seas of sciences and subtleties, and they perused what they perused of the inscriptions of the tablets of the unseen written with what is heard from the call of the Truth and the screeching of the pens, so every ultimate goal from Your Book was unveiled to them, containing wonders of bestowed perceptions and subtleties of descending divine gifts, and symbols of exquisite holy allusions by which they understand from their Lord the meaning of every address and speech. So they attained the perfection of Your care and realized the secret of Your sainthood. ﴿Unquestionably, [for] the allies of Allah there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve.﴾ ﴿Those are the party of Allah. Unquestionably, the party of Allah are the successful.﴾ I did not cease in love until I could bear no more patience, * and my body became kindled with the fire of longing. And it made the body such that no eye sees it, just as * it melted away my entrails, heart, and liver. For Allah’s sake, tears flowed streaming on the cheek, * whose fire dried them up as they were flowing. Whenever I place my hand over my heart, it calls out: * O my ultimate goal in love, O One, Eternal! By Allah, for other than You I will not purify my affection, * nor will I bestow union in love upon anyone. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your Prophet.

The Sent One as a mercy to all creatures, and Your chosen one, illuminated by his light in the west and the east, and the sea of the message filled with the light of Your names, possessing a dazzling and transcendent secret and a novel and exquisite meaning. They are: Al-Ghaffār ⁸³⁷, i.e., the Forgiver of the sin of one who has transgressed against himself without causing him to despair of His mercy; and it is said: the Forgiver of the crimes of those who commit major sins, and the Eraser of the traces of their evil deeds with the water of His pardon and forgiveness. Al-Ghafūr ⁸³⁸, who lets down the veil of His covering over those who repent, believe, do righteous deeds, and enter the fortress of faith and the sanctuary of His inviolability. Al-Qahhār ⁸³⁹, the Subduer of the souls of the fearful through the majesty of His vigilance, the hearts of the knowers through the might of His grandeur, and the spirits of the lovers through the manifestations of His transcendent lights and the vision of Him. Al-Wahhāb ⁸⁴⁰, the Great in generosity and bestowal, abundant in beneficence and favor, the Giver of whatever He wills of the secret of His particularity to whomever He wills among His chosen ones, and He increases not when He manifests His favor and the witness of His gracious bounty upon them. Al-Karīm ⁸⁴¹, who, when He reckons, is lenient; when He decrees, He pardons; when He promises, He fulfills; when He is asked, He gives; and when He gives, He exceeds the utmost hope, and He does not mind what He gives, nor how much He gives, nor to whom He gives. He spreads the cloak of generosity over those who attach themselves to Him, rely on Him in their affairs, and disavow their own power and strength. Al-Jawād ⁸⁴², who gives to His servants before they ask, so that they may thank Him, and increases them from His bounty so that they may remember Him, and supplies them with His goodness and the abundant flow of His grace. Ar-Razzāq ⁸⁴³, the Bestower of favors upon His creation through His magnificent blessings and abundant gifts, who supplies the spirits of His chosen ones with what befits their states: high stations, elevated ranks, and lights of theophanies. Al-Fātih ⁸⁴⁴, who opens the treasuries of gifts upon the outward as He opens them upon the inward through His excellent management and the secret of His power. Al-'Alīm ⁸⁴⁵, who knows all His known things, the insignificant and the great, the many and the few, the summary and the detailed; the Knower of the Oneness of His Self and the grandeur of His Lordship; the Knower of the unseen, the Observer of the hidden secrets, the innermost thoughts, the unveilings of the inspired among His servants who have reached Him, and the perceptions of the intellects of His beloved, the near ones who act according to His Book and His Sunnah. Al-Khāfid ⁸⁴⁶, who lowers the wing of His saints through fear and humility, modesty and submission, filling their hearts with the awe of His majesty and fear of Him. Ar-Rāfi' ⁸⁴⁷, who raises the aspirations of those who turn to Him and the ranks of those who belong to Him, through asceticism and chastity, acceptance of truth and fairness, adorning themselves with praiseworthy traits, yearning for His meeting, and immersion in the beauty of His Oneness. Al-Mu'izz ⁸⁴⁸, who honors the people of His friendship through His electing them and His closeness, and strengthens them to endure the pangs of His longing and love, to obey His commands, abandon His prohibitions, and persevere in His obedience. Al-Mudhill ⁸⁴⁹, who humiliates the people of disobedience and opposition through His veil and the prison of His separation, and subdues the souls of those who repent to Him, preventing them from committing lusts through the majesty of His awe. As-Samī' ⁸⁵⁰, who hears the secret of the servant and his private conversation, answers the distressed supplicant when he calls upon Him, accepts the apology of the one who excuses himself and his complaint, relieves every anxious person of what worries him, gladdens his heart with the water of His pardon, and gives him rest from his grievance. Al-Basīr ⁸⁵¹, who sees the affairs of His servants and what they are upon: base morals, human follies, corrupt beliefs, and evil deeds; so He seizes whom He wills with the might of His punishment, and honors whom He wills by reforming his inner self and purifying his conscience. Al-Hakam ⁸⁵², who judges what He wills and decrees what He wills and how He wills upon whom He wills, and does not consult anyone in the disposal of His decrees, nor does anyone dispute with Him in the judgments of His divinity. Al-'Adl ⁸⁵³, who is exalted above injustice in His actions and the administration of His judgments; there is no partner with Him in His judgment, nor any administrator with Him in His kingdom; sanctified is His action from inequity, and His disposal of His creatures. Al-Latīf ⁸⁵⁴, who concealed the subtleties of His kindness and the flow of the emotions of His mercy in the word "Be," and veiled that from the understanding of the clever and intelligent among His servants, and made the cure of illnesses through drinking unpleasant medicines, so that the distressed may find relief from his distress and the sick may recover from his illness; and in the concealment of His kindness is a great secret of the wonders of His wisdom. Al-Khabīr ⁸⁵⁵, from whose knowledge nothing on earth or in heaven escapes; the key to all the treasuries of the unseen lies within the fold of His grasp. Al-Halīm ⁸⁵⁶, who brings the distant near, gives respite to the disobedient, pardons the wrongdoer, and overlooks the offender, while He is capable of revenge, yet He does not hasten to punish anyone. Al-'Alīy ⁸⁵⁷, the Great, who is worthy of the attributes of majesty, exaltation, glory, and perfection; whose saints are magnified in sanctity by what He has granted them of the angelic secret, so that the entire cosmos cannot contain them. Al-'Afuww ⁸⁵⁸, whose mercy precedes His wrath; He has never ceased to be Pardoning, Forgiving, Forbearing, Concealing; He pardons and forgives, is generous and liberal, and forgives the great sin of whoever seeks His forgiveness and confesses his immense crime and offense. Ash-Shakūr ⁸⁵⁹, who thanked Himself by Himself and commanded His servants to thank Him for what He bestowed upon them of the grace of faith, Islam, and excellence, and created their hearts upon His innate disposition. Al-Kabīr ⁸⁶⁰, whose garments of majesty dazzle the eyes of those who contemplate the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and whose perfections bewilder the intellects of those who have reached Him and the masters of states among the people of expansion and contraction; no great one remains but submits to His majesty and the greatness of His dominion. Al-Hafīz ⁸⁶¹, who preserves the states of His righteous servants from false claims, carnal lusts, and satanic temptations, and leads them by the reins of fear to Him, shielding them from that with the amulets of His infallibility. Al-Muqīt ⁸⁶², who nourishes the spirits of His saints with the lights of His essence and the secrets of His attributes, and provides for the bodies of His creatures with what sustains them, and preserves the hearts of His knowers with the contemplation of His majesty and beauty.

His saints through His remembrances, and He nourishes their phantoms with the subtle secrets of His mysteries, and the abundance of His goodness and bounty, and He gives every sincere friend his share of the gifts of His generosity. In His distribution, the All-Sufficient Reckoner does not fail; whoever suffices with Him and seeks refuge in Him, He accustoms him to the lavishness of His blessings upon him, and does not hold him accountable for what He has graciously bestowed upon him, due to the abundance of His generosity, forbearance, compassion, and mercy. The Majestic, the Beautiful, who unveiled Himself to the knowers ⁸⁶³ through His Majesty, so they became absent; and unveiled Himself to the lovers ⁸⁶⁴ through His Beauty, so they became pure; and unveiled Himself to the yearners ⁸⁶⁵ through nearness to Him, so they became sincere and repented; and unveiled Himself to the fearful through the lights of His awe, so they became crushed ⁸⁶⁶ out of fear of Him. The Answerer, who answers the distressed when he calls upon Him, and removes evil from whoever clings to Him and enters His sanctuary, and saves the seeker of help from the calamities of time and its trials. The All-Encompassing, whose Throne encompasses the heavens and the earth, and their preservation does not weary Him; He encompasses all creatures with His grace, and His mercy and knowledge encompass everything, so the sins of the first and last ⁸⁶⁷ dissolve under a hem of the hems of His pardon and forgiveness. Glorious, Glorious, Holy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit ⁸⁶⁸. "Our Lord, You have encompassed all things in mercy and knowledge, so forgive those who have repented and followed Your way, and protect them from the punishment of Hellfire. Our Lord, admit them to the Gardens of Eden which You have promised them, and the righteous among their fathers, spouses, and offspring. Indeed, You are the Almighty, the Wise. And protect them from evil deeds, and whoever You protect from evil deeds on that Day has received Your mercy, and that is the great triumph." "Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith, and do not put in our hearts any rancor towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are Kind, Merciful." Glorious, Glorious, Holy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. Glory be to You, I have wronged myself and done evil, so forgive me and have mercy on me, for You are the Best of the merciful. Glory be to You, I have wronged myself and done evil, so forgive me and have mercy on me, for You are the Best of the forgivers. "And You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy on us, for You are the Best of the forgivers. And ordain for us good in this world and in the Hereafter; indeed, we have turned to You. He said: 'My punishment I inflict upon whom I will, but My mercy encompasses all things. So I will ordain it for those who are righteous and give zakah ⁸⁶⁹, and those who believe in Our signs, those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find written in the Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them what is wrong, and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil, and relieves them of their burden and the shackles that were upon them.'" Those who believe in him, honor him, support him, and follow the light that was sent down with him—it is they who are the successful. I secluded myself with my soul and reproached it for its opposition before the blame of the blamer. I reproached it secretly, and its answer was: "Rise with me and resolve, like the resolve of the resolute." Until when it became active and its activity became apparent, and I hoped for gains from its activity, it fled from me and a lethargy entered it after the activity, and it returned with sins. So I secluded myself one day after that, reproaching it while it was sorrowful, like a sorrowful person suppressing grief. "Do you think He will have mercy on me and accept my repentance? Who besides Him will have mercy on my slip?" So I answered it: "Arise, fast, and persist, for the door is opened to the persistent servant." O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the eye of eternal mercy flowing from the seas of holiness, and the spring of divine wisdom overflowing from the rivers of intimacy, and the sea of prophethood filled with the light of Your Wise Name, who perfected everything in creation and perfected everything in craftsmanship. "You see no discrepancy in the creation of the Most Merciful. So return your gaze; do you see any rifts?" He guides everyone through the secret of His wisdom to his station, and makes known to every saint ⁸⁷⁰ the measure of his rank. The Loving, who loves His righteous servants and His saints, and the Bestower of the gifts of His grace to His beloved, the certain ones, and His chosen ones, whose grace encompasses those of His servants who turn to Him and those who turn away, those who do good and those who do evil. His abundant favors never cease to pour upon those who believe in Him and are sincere in their servitude. The Raiser, who raises thoughts of good in the hearts of His believing servants and His sincere saints, and helps them bear the legal obligations and preserve His trusts and His pledge. The Witness, who witnesses for Himself with self-sufficiency, perfection, and oneness, and for His servants with neediness and servitude, and witnesses against them for what they have done of obedience and disobedience, so that every soul may be recompensed for what it earned. He treats whom He wills with pure grace and generosity, and admits him into the vastness of His Paradise. The Truth, who has realized His saints through the secret of His uniqueness, and illuminated their innermost beings with the lights of His mercy, and adorned their faces with the light of His attributes and His mark. The Trustee, who has removed the conflicts of destinies from the hearts of His chosen ones who rely on Him and His generous ones who are ascetic and desirous of what is with Him, and commanded them to remain still under the currents of destinies, and helped them in that with His strength. The Strong, who strengthened the spirituality of the intimate companions of His Presence, and the hearts of His pious ones who acknowledge the truth of His Lordship, and made their mountains firm at the rising of the lights of His manifestations and the unveiling of the veil of His majesty. The Firm, the Perfect, who strengthened the faith of His saints and granted them such that they became independent of everything through Him, and did not stop their aspirations at anything other than Him, for they knew Him and thus proclaimed the truth and stood by His proof. The Patron, who takes charge of the affairs of His righteous servants and the people of His sainthood, the attracted ones and the wayfarers, and drowns their worlds in the attributes of His perfections, until there is no between or where, so He is the life of every passing one among them and the spirit of their innermost being. The Praiseworthy, who praised Himself by Himself, and the praises of creation fall short of Him, and He commanded His servants to praise Him, sanctify Him, and declare His oneness. So He is the Praised, first and last, beginning and forever. "And there is nothing that does not exalt [Him] with His praise." And to Him is the ultimate goal of his desire and fear. The Reckoner, who enumerates the circles of His servants, and the states of His poles ⁸⁷¹ and pegs ⁸⁷², and they are like atoms in the loins of Adam before the sketching of his form and the appearance of his image. The Originator, who originated His saints with the secrets of the kingdom of heaven ⁸⁷³ and supplied them with His merciful effusions, and showed them what was hidden of beautiful treasures in His mighty treasuries, and said to them: "Let the one of abundance spend from his abundance." The Restorer, who restores the spirits of the yearning ones after their annihilation in His beauty, and cools the burning passion of the lovers in the attributes of His perfection, by unveiling the veil from His noble face and vision of Him. The Giver of Life, the Giver of Death, who gives life to the hearts of the knowers with the lights of His gnostic gifts and bestowed graces, and puts to death the souls of the fearful with His overwhelming might and compelling decrees, so they remain obscure and subdued by the sword of His compulsion and the majesty of His awe. The Living, who enlivens the gatherings of the rememberers with the breezes of His breaths, and gathers the scattered ones with the tenderness of His mercies, and revives the spirits of the bewildered with His union, so that they may rest from the pangs of passion and its shock. The Self-Subsisting, who is self-subsisting and sustains the affairs of His servants who strive in His obedience and turn to His worship, for He has relieved them from the cunning of planning and the fatigue of occupations other than His service. The One, the Finder of the states of the masters of states, and the stations of the people of intimacy and boldness.

And what impels them from the heat of ecstasy and rapture ⁸⁷⁴ is that which carries them to simulated ecstasy ⁸⁷⁵ and dance in His presence. The Glorious ⁸⁷⁶, who glorified Himself by Himself and commanded His servants to glorify Him and praise Him as befits the majesty of His grandeur (287) and the purity of His perfection, so that He may grant them what they desire and preserve them from evils and deliver them from the torment of the grave and its trial. The One ⁸⁷⁷, who made Himself one by Himself and commanded His servants to declare His oneness ⁸⁷⁸ as He declared His own oneness, so that He may bring them out of darkness into light by His permission, and heal them from the disease of ignorance and its darkness. The Unique ⁸⁷⁹ in His essence, attributes, and acts; whoever knows that He is thus no longer attributes any significance to the cosmos, nor pays attention to it, nor relies on anything from it, and that it is established by the existence of the Truth and effaced by His Uniqueness. The Eternal Refuge ⁸⁸⁰, who is free from father and children, ministers and peers; therefore everything seeks refuge in Him and turns to Him, while He does not turn to anyone due to His self-sufficiency and the need of others for Him. He is the Eternal Refuge without likeness, and nothing is like Him; He is holy in the majesty of His essence and the vastness of His kingdom. The Powerful ⁸⁸¹, who granted His saints power to obey and abandon disobedience, and protected them from the scheming of souls in what He decreed and willed, and from the plots of Satan and his misguidance. The Prevailing ⁸⁸² over us, over Himself, and over everything; He has reached the utmost limit in everything, and everything that occurs in the cosmos is from Him and to Him; that is from the perfection of His most holy honor and the execution of His will, which He grants to the people of His sainthood and proximity, enabling them to dispose of all created things and empowering them in the highest ranks and stations. The Delayer ⁸⁸³ of whom He wills among them, for what He wills and how He wills, due to a secret necessitated by (288) eternal wisdom, so that thereby may be distinguished those who incur His wrath from those whom He has singled out for His happiness. The First ⁸⁸⁴ before every first and before everything, who brought creation into existence after non-existence and brought them forth in the most perfect form; He willed, and they all acknowledged that He is their Creator, Provider, Originator, and Restorer according to what preceded in His pre-eternity. The Last ⁸⁸⁵, who inherits the earth and all upon it; after Him there is nothing; nothing remains but His Face, and nothing endures but His kingdom: "Everyone upon it will perish, and there will remain the Face of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor" ⁸⁸⁶. So He says, "O world, to whom belongs the kingdom today?" and His power answers Him by His might. The Manifest ⁸⁸⁷, who manifested to the people of insight in the loci of theophanies ⁸⁸⁸ and gifted them with gifts of inspirations and receptions ⁸⁸⁹, and protected them out of His jealousy over them in the fortress of His preservation. The Hidden ⁸⁹⁰, who is hidden in the dominion of the connecting poles ⁸⁹¹ and firmly established in the consciences of the solitary knowers ⁸⁹²; He guides whom He wills to Himself without proof and makes known to him the attributes of His perfections and the flashes of His signs. Most Holy ⁸⁹³, All Holy ⁸⁹⁴, Lord of the angels and the Spirit ⁸⁹⁵: "Say, 'Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?' Say, 'Allah.' Most Holy, All Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. And Allah said, 'Do not take two gods; He is only one God. Most Holy, All Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. And your God is one God; there is no god but He, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Our Lord, perfect for us our light and forgive us; indeed, You are over all things competent.'" The Benign ⁸⁹⁶, who from His kindness to His righteous servants and His pious saints has bound them with the bonds of obedience against disobedience, led them on the paths of salvation, bestowed upon them the raising of ranks, and settled them by His sheer grace in the abode of His honors. The Oft-Returning ⁸⁹⁷, who, for whoever is sincere to Him and turns in repentance, and seeks forgiveness for all his sins and repents, makes the means easy for him, opens the doors for him, fulfills His giving to him without measure, forgives him, and does not hold him accountable for his evil deeds and what he has violated of His sanctities. The Avenger ⁸⁹⁸, who takes vengeance on those who oppress His servants, and takes vengeance on those who occupy someone occupied with Him from among the people of His love and affection, and kills his heart with the sword of His imamate ⁸⁹⁹ and distances him from His presences. The Pardoner ⁹⁰⁰, who, when He confronts a servant with pardon, erases his sins from the record of the recording angels ⁹⁰¹ in a way that makes them forget them, both the angels and the sinners, and purifies their hearts from them and washes them with the water of His mercies. The Kind ⁹⁰², who is kinder to a person than himself, more merciful to him than his parents, more compassionate to him than his brothers and loved ones, and than all that He has created in His earth and heavens. The Owner of Sovereignty ⁹⁰³, who has complete disposal, the lofty and great universal kingdom, and the high decree that cannot be grasped nor opposed; everything is in His grasp, subdued by His power, and subject to His command and governance. The Possessor of Majesty and Honor ⁹⁰⁴, of Generosity and Bounty, the Bestower, the Gracious; whoever He bestows upon with His generosity and favors with His beneficence attains His vast good pleasure and immense grace, and becomes one upon whom favor is bestowed (290) in this world and the Hereafter. The Equitable ⁹⁰⁵, who commands equity and gives according to the decree of apportionment; with Him are the treasuries of everything, "and We do not send it down except in a known measure" ⁹⁰⁶, as He is the Apportioner according to His command and will. The Gatherer ⁹⁰⁷, who gathers the hearts of His saints to Him in the gathering of gathering ⁹⁰⁸ before Him, and gathers for them between the Law ⁹⁰⁹ and the Truth ⁹¹⁰, and the gifts of His sciences and the subtleties of their understandings, and the unique gems of His teachings and inspirations. The Self-Sufficient ⁹¹¹, from whose self-sufficiency all self-sufficiency is derived, and everything other than Him is in need of Him; whoever seeks self-sufficiency through Him rather than others takes from the cups ⁹¹² whatever he wills and disposes in his worlds as he wills. The Self-Sufficient, who makes self-sufficient from asking whoever takes refuge in Him, turns his aspiration to Him, and relies on Him in his beginning and end. The Giver, the Withholder ⁹¹³, who gives to the elite of His servants what He wills of His dazzling secret and radiant light, and withholds from them the accidents of stripping and annulment as He wills with His overwhelming sword, and protects their hearts from intrusive thoughts and whisperings, and guards them with the eye of His care. The Harmer ⁹¹⁴, who loves whoever harms his worldly life for his Hereafter, renounces what is in his hands, relies on Him, and sacrifices himself and his wealth for His good pleasure. The Benefiter ⁹¹⁵, who conveys to His believing servants what He has stored for them of benefits in the treasuries of the unseen, so that they may fulfill the duties of His servitude and seek thereby assistance in the affairs of His creatures. The Light ⁹¹⁶, who is the light of the heavens and the earth, and the illuminator of the lights of knowledge in the hearts of the knowers until (291) they know Him, and the lights of majesty in the hearts of the fearful until they magnify Him, and the lights of revelation in the hearts of the prophets and messengers until they declare His oneness and call to His oneness, and yearn for His promise and fear His threat, and the lights of obedience in the hearts of His saints until they worship Him, and the lights of awe in the hearts of the angels until they sanctify Him, and the lights of proximity in the temples of the cherubim ⁹¹⁷ and the dominators ⁹¹⁸, until they glorify Him and become immersed in the lights of His splendors. The Guide ⁹¹⁹, the guide of those who turn to Him with the light of His care, and of those who desire what is with Him with the secrets of His sainthood, and of those who journey to Him with the stars of His guidance. So He guided those who turn to Him by contemplating the flashes of pre-eternal secrets, and guided those who desire what is with Him by contemplating the lights of theophany, and guided those who journey to Him by the secrets of the names and the realities of meanings and the great signs. And everyone is facilitated for what he was created for in his movements and stillness. The Incomparable Originator ⁹²⁰, who adorned the earth with plants, and adorned the lowest heaven with the adornment of stars, and made obedience the adornment of souls and bodies, and knowledge the adornment of hearts and spirits, and adorned the attributes of the people of perfection with the secret of His wisdom, and illuminated the hearts of the people of intimacy and boldness ⁹²¹ with the light of His knowledge, and moved the bodies of the people of states ⁹²² with the ink of His love. The Everlasting ⁹²³, who

Whose dominion does not cease, whose length and bounty are without end, and whose generosity and honor cannot be enumerated. ⁹²⁴ He perpetuates the spirits of His saints through the permanence of His everlastingness, and extends His chosen ones through the duration of His eternity. The Inheritor, who inherits the earth and all upon it, and to Him is the return and final abode of all creatures, He bequeathed to His saints the station of praise and commendation, and bequeathed to His chosen ones the station of particularity and selection, and bequeathed to His learned scholars the inheritances of the messengers and prophets, and bequeathed to His beloved and generous ones the inheritances of absence and annihilation. ⁹²⁵ Thus their spirits never cease to be annihilated in the beauty of His Essence, and the secrets of their innermost selves are immersed in the manifestations of His knowledge and the meanings of His signs, and the thoughts of their minds swim in the seas of His intimate discourse and conversation. The Guide, who guided His beloved ones to the proofs of His knowledge until they knew Him, and awakened them through the secrets of His understanding until they sought His favor, and drew them to Him with the breezes of His breaths until they praised and honored Him, and illuminated their insights with the lights of His gnosis until they witnessed Him, each of them being divinely aided in the tablet of his secret and his open state. The Patient, who showed patience towards His servants for whom happiness was preordained until they returned to Him and devoted their direction and worship solely to Him, and they found Him the Most Generous of the generous and the Most Merciful of the merciful, so He pardoned them, forgave them, and admitted them to the abode of His bounty and generosity, and spread for them the carpet of His pardon and forbearance, and set before them the tables of His beneficence and blessings, and said to them: "And they will say, 'Praise be to Allah, who has fulfilled His promise to us and has made us inherit the earth, so we may settle in Paradise wherever we will. How excellent is the reward of the workers!'" ⁹²⁶ So He honored them with the best and increased them with the vision of Him and the enjoyment of the beauty of His Essence. Glorified, Holy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, a glorification befitting the perfection of Your attributes and names, and the loftiness of Your glory and praise, and the might of Your majesty and sublimity. Glorified, Glorified, Holy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, a glorification befitting Your great Lordship, and the sanctity of Your Divinity, and the might of Your Everlastingness, and the secret of Your Self-Subsistence. Glorified, Glorified, Holy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the Spirit. Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise, a glorification befitting Your beautiful attributes and majestic perfections, and Your abundant gifts, and Your copious bestowals. I cannot enumerate praise upon You; You are as You have praised Yourself. And O Allah, bless our master Muhammad, Your servant and messenger, the unlettered prophet, and his wives and his offspring, as You blessed our master Abraham and the family of our master Abraham, and send blessings upon our master Muhammad, the unlettered prophet, and his wives and his offspring, as You blessed our master Abraham and the family of our master Abraham in the worlds; indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious. And O Allah, bless our master Muhammad with Your blessing with which You and Your angels have blessed him in the gardens of Your intimacy, and grant him peace with Your peace with which You alone have greeted him in the pavilions of Your intimacy. And be pleased, O Allah, with his family and his companions, whom You supported with Your mighty victory, and honored in Your firm Book with beautiful mention, and adorned with compliance to Your command and prohibition, and whose hearts You molded upon Your success, obedience, and righteousness, and with the Followers and those who follow them in goodness until the Day of Judgment. And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. I will keep a covenant that was between me and you, though I am aware of hidden matters. Grant me union from you with affection, for which there is sanctity; indeed, the bond is great. Spirits [yearn] with ecstasy, then I run with its like, and my heart is afflicted with burning and sighing. When my soul remembers You, it dies of longing, and my heart almost flies at that. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your preceding light with whose praiseworthy, preceding origination You opened the existence of created things, and from the expanse of Your grace You brought forth his Ahmadian reality, prepared to receive the flow of Your holy lights, whose secret permeates the worlds of things, both summarized and detailed, and the sea of messengerhood filled with the effusion of the secrets of Your merciful names and the gifts of Your gnostic knowledge, which You singled him out for ⁹²⁷ over all other creatures, and through which You manifested his superiority over the prophets, messengers, and all existent things, and with which You caused the sun of his Mustafawian reality to rise from the suns of the presence of Your Lordship, transcendent above likenesses, resemblances, and the mark of originated things, and You perfected its equilibrium in the center of the degree of moderation of Your realities that encompass the meanings of names and attributes, and from it You differentiated every radiant light in the easts of Your beings and the manifestations of the dazzling lights of Your self-disclosures in the heaven of the high stations of lordship and the highest degrees, and You spread its rays throughout all Your luminous and dark worlds, and You deposited them in his comprehensive reality that encompasses the realities of corporeal and spiritual souls, and through it You prepared his noble heart to receive the incoming flows of Your divine knowledge and the gifts of Your lordly openings, and to be adorned with Your praiseworthy character and attributes.

Your majestic and beautiful perfections, and filled it with the secrets of Your wisdoms and the compassionate affections of Your Self-Sufficient ⁹²⁸ mercies, and made it the key to the treasuries of Your unseen secrets and an accepted means before You, and a model for the people of Your love in all encompassing cycles and the worlds of the higher and lower realms, and the means of opening for whoever seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized gift, which You watered its roots with the water of the lights of Your Oneness ⁹²⁹, and nurtured the fruits of its branches with the winds of the secrets of Your Self-Sufficiency ⁹³⁰, and wrote on every leaf of its leaves: 'I am the Rich, the Giver to whoever turns to Me; I bestow and favor upon him before he asks Me with the best of gifts and the most abundant of grants.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whom You took the covenant of victory and faith in him from all Your messengers and prophets, and Your chosen one whose heart You filled with the lights of Your holy attributes and the secrets of Your names, and the ocean of the message filled with the jewels of Your singular revelation ⁹³¹ and the sciences of Your heaven, and the locus of Your All-Merciful address and the subtleties of Your praise and laudation, whom You honored by adorning him with Your beautiful, wondrous attributes, and perfected his character with Your majestic, lofty excellences, which no predecessor preceded him to and no successor can catch up to him in, and You sent him with the best of what You sent Your messengers of Your firm laws, and made him a mercy to the worlds and manifested through him the beacon of Your magnified rites, and singled him out with the two virtues of the priority of his existence and the finality of his noble, exalted mission, and made him a guide to You through You and standing for You with the most complete servitude before You, and opened for him the door of attraction from the presence of Your Lordship ⁹³² and the door of wayfaring from the presence of Your Mercy ⁹³³, and he entered the two presences fulfilling all that Your Lordship requires of the rights of the stations and the honor of the two abodes in both worlds, prostrating to You in the first, thanking You in the second, giving to each what is its due by the balance of divine justice, from his heart protected by You, not heedless of You nor distracted. So to You be eternal praise and perpetual gratitude for what You have given this noble prophet of the perfection of Your love for him and his love for You, and his knowledge of You and Your closeness to him and his closeness to You, and the special distinction that none of the emissaries of Your unseen and the trustees of Your revelation have ever beheld, and for what You have placed in the blessing upon him of perfect care and magnification, majesty and glorification, abundant reward and immense recompense, and the lofty station above which there is no hand for whoever seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized gift, whose roots You established in the earth of Your Lordship, O All-Sufficient, O Rich, O Generous, O Noble, and whose branches You concealed in the heaven of Your Mercy, O Opener, O Provider, O Possessor of Bounty, O Enricher, O Forbearing, and You wrote on every leaf of its leaves: 'I am the Rich, the Enricher, the Generous, the Favoring, the Bestower, the Kind, the Merciful.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose ancient light You created his light, and Your chosen one, whose mission and manifestation You honored above the landmarks of the prophets and messengers, and the ocean of the message filled with the light of Your holy, purified, blessed names, by which You granted him every good and from which You poured forth his rivers and seas, and by which You veiled his Ahmadic essence ⁹³⁴, whose reality is concealed in the consciences of the unseen, from being grasped by intellects or qualified by minds in form and image, just as You veiled Your own transcendent Self from 'whereness' and 'betweenness' and incarnation and union, as its proofs are inscribed in the Book, and You planted from his Muhammadan elixir ⁹³⁵ in every existent that by which Your wisdom in it was perfected, so that its forms and stages might be populated with the gifts of secrets, and You caused the springs of his virtues and excellences to flow in the worlds, so that their hearts might be molded on his love and created with it. Thus he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was the point of existence, the very essence of every existent, the ocean of generosity overflowing with every good and bounty, and the comprehensive secret through which everyone who seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized gift attains, whose roots You veiled with the veil of Your Majesty, whose reality You concealed from the perception of the people of watchfulness and witnessing, and You wrote on every leaf of its leaves: 'I am the Rich, the Giver, the Pious, the Affectionate, the Loving.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, whom the precedents of Your special favor raised to the stations of Your everlasting might, and the sequels of Your manifest care drew from the manifestations of Your most noble Self-disclosure to the presence of the conjunction of his great name with Your majestic, greatest name, and the ocean of the message filled with the light of Your names from which You derived his names, possessing high honor and most magnificent rank, and by which You raised in the highest assembly his beautiful mention and his comprehensive, universal praise, and seated him on the throne of proximity to You and the honor specially for him over all Your prophets in the presence of Your holiness and the station of Your complete, perfect intimacy, and You poured forth through his hands the seas of Your holy secrets into the hearts of Your saints, the people of the lordly secret and the most abundant support, and made seeking intercession through him to You a door of mercy whose breezes blow from his Ahmadic gardens and whose breaths follow from his Mustafawic ⁹³⁶ presence upon everyone who seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized gift, whose roots You planted in the mountains of Your might and majesty by Your penetrating, decisive command, and whose branches You stirred with the zephyrs of Your Transcendence ⁹³⁷ and Your Holiness ⁹³⁸, and wrote on every leaf of its leaves: 'I am the Rich, the Giver, the Kind, the Most Merciful.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, in whose purified heart You deposited the realities of Your bestowed sciences, and Your chosen one whom You entrusted with the treasuries of Your revelation and the comprehensive secrets of Your unseen, and the ocean of the message filled with the light of Your majestic, most glorious, mighty, most mighty name, by which You raised him to the highest stations of special distinction in election and belovedness, and in which You disciplined him with the perfect adab ⁹³⁹ of the attributes of servitude honored by the secret of sincerity, purity, and fulfillment of the right of Lordship, and upon which You completed for him the grace of intimacy with You and boldness before You, and gave him therein of the utmost moral and physical perfection beyond which there is no perfection except Your perfection, which falls short of every perfection that appears in the secret and speciality, and You made his noble spirit a portion by which one swears over all spiritual spirits, so they submit to the one sworn by, willingly or unwillingly, in all dispositions and all states governing physical bodies and spiritual persons, and his Muhammadan reality ⁹⁴⁰ the seal of the secret of every supplication by which he who seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized gift calls upon You, whose roots You submerged in the seas of the names of the flood of Your holy blessing, and whose branches You released into the vast expanse of Your spreading and the diffusion of Your perpetual, self-subsistent mercies, and wrote on every leaf of its leaves: 'I am the Rich, the Giver, the All-Sufficient, the One who manages the affairs of creation, wrapped in the cloak of subjugation and the might of Eternity.' O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, whose goodly character revealed the honor of his prophetic spirituality, and Your chosen one, whose pure traits indicated the perfection of his Mustafawic luminosity, and the ocean of the message filled with the secret of

Your name concealed in the veil of the light of Your most luminous light, and the honor of the secret of Your perfect, most resplendent secret, and the safeguard of the veil of Your divinity, the guardian, the guarded, the pure, the most purified, and Your Prophet who encompasses the secret of physical honor, spiritual majesty, luminous beauty, human perfection, divine beneficence, and solitary faith, and Your trusted one of praiseworthy remembrance in all Your worlds, the higher and the lower, and the precedents of Your mercies, the prior and the posterior, and the eye of the eye ⁹⁴¹ of the secret of Your luminous, orthodox reality, and the spirit of the spirit of the secret of Your spiritual, angelic, inscribed creation, singled out by the secret of Your first specification, and Your prior wisdom in the eternity of eternities, O Last, O First, and Your saint ⁹⁴² through whom and for whom You originated what was and what will be, and You swore by him with Your words: "And indeed, you are of a great moral character" ⁹⁴³ in Your revealed Book, and You made prayer upon him the best means by which Your divine gifts, both summary and detailed, are drawn down, and by which Your lordly favors are sought as rain in everything hoped for from the flood of Your bounty and expected, and by which the needs of one who seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute sufficiency and Your perfect, realized giving are fulfilled, the tree from whose roots the springs of the seas of Your generosity gushed forth, and from whose branches the streams of the rivers of Your giving flowed, and on every leaf of which was written: "I am the Rich, the Giver, the Beautiful, the Bestower, the Favorer." O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, whose precious essence You favored over all other essences, and Your intimate companion ⁹⁴⁴ whose pure exterior and lofty interior You honored over all interiors and exteriors, and the sea of the message filled with the secret of Your name the First, the Last, the Inward, the Outward, and Your interlocutor ⁹⁴⁵ whom You advanced in high station and rank over all the first and the last, and whom You honored with Your support and success in all movements and stillnesses, and everything that stirs in souls and thoughts, and You caused all his worlds to disappear in You in an absence by which You drew him to Yourself, and cut him off from everything that distracts him from You in sources and destinations, and brought him near to You with a nearness by which You bestowed upon him from the robes of Your attributes and names that which makes him boast over the entities of the great and famous, and You made him the most noble means of approach to You in important matters that confound minds and perplex eyes, and You adorned his noble essence with the garments of Your greatest might and the light of Your dazzling signs, so he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, became the Greatest Name ⁹⁴⁶ by which, when You are called, You answer, and when intercession is made, You respond, and when intercession is made by his rank ⁹⁴⁷ to You, the tables of blessings descend and the clouds of abundant good rains pour down. And You made prayer upon him a remembrance by which the resolve of his rememberer is affected, and the heads of tyrants and leaders of armies and tribes submit to him. And the presence of his noble name is the presence of openings and gifts, from which one who seeks to pluck the fruits of the tree of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, realized giving calls to You, the tree whose secrets You preserved in the treasury of the chamber of Your knowledge, sanctified from the plotting of pens and the ink of inkwells, and You made the fruits of its branches appear in the gardens of Your prior mercy and the expanse of Your forbearance, which minds cannot qualify and circles cannot encompass, and on every leaf of its leaves You wrote: "I am the Rich, the Giver; I enrich the poor, honor the abased, and give the giving of one who does not fear poverty and whom no preventer or barrier prevents." So bless, O Allah, the purified, pure Prophet with a blessing by which the stars of his radiant love shine in our hearts, and by which You quench us from the flood of his Muhammadan supply and the light of his abundant generosity, and make it for us a provision we find on the day when realities become true and secrets are tested, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. * May Allah reward the Seal of the Messengers on our behalf * And the Intercessor of mankind with the best reward * For he is the succor of generosity, the sea of gifts * And the relief of creation, the treasure of fidelity * O Messenger of God, I am poor * So succor me, O helper of the poor * O Messenger of God, I am a stranger * So succor me, O refuge of strangers * O Messenger of God, if You do not succor me * Then to whom do You see I can turn for refuge? * You are my treasure, my provision, my refuge * My relief, my support, my hope * And my intercessor on the Day of Resurrection at the Gathering * So be for me, O most noble of intercessors * O vast in bounty, O perfect in grace * O abundant in generosity and giving * To You I have come as a visitor and sought intercession * By the generosity of Your hands and blessings * So answer me, O Chosen One, to my request * And bestow forgiveness and acceptance * And I am honored to have composed poetry * On the meanings of Your lofty attributes * So mend my heart today and accept * My praise of You, O great of hope

I was once poor, but through praising you I have become among the most fortunate of the fortunate. O Imam of creation, O gatherer of virtue, O qibla of guidance and supplication, to you from me be a greeting and blessing every day, morning and evening. Peace be upon you, O noblest of creation, from God in the forenoon and evening, as long as a warbler sings in the arbors of the thicket and warbles in a luxuriant garden, and a camel-driver urges his camels in the Hijaz and calls out, 'May God protect the neighbors of al-Jar‘a' ⁹⁴⁸. O God, You are the Absolutely Self-Sufficient, the Giver by pure grace, not by merit, and I am Your weak, poor, needy servant, abject and lowly, in need of the gifts of Your generosity, bounty, and favors. I have placed my poverty at the door of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, certain giving, seeking intercession in repelling my poverty and destitution and lifting my distress and need, by the sanctity of these Names ⁹⁴⁹ of great luminous secret, lofty Lordly rank, high Rahmanic glory, pure Fardanic ⁹⁵⁰ remembrance, which dispose in the worlds of spiritual souls and the service of the veils, pavilions, and sovereign dominion; and by the sanctity of what they contain of secrets and gnostic gifts, and what they comprise of holy benefits and Quranic signs, and what they encompass of glorifications, sanctifications, and gracious subtleties; and by the sanctity of Your Beloved, our Master Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace), the very source of the outpourings of Rahmanic mercies, the mercy to humanity and the worlds of existence, the subtlety of bodily refreshments ⁹⁵¹, the gathering point of the truths of faith and the manifestations of excellence; and by the secret of Your secret encompassing the seas of Your angelic and luminous malakutic ⁹⁵² secrets, the treasuries of Your Rahamuti ⁹⁵³ and Jabruti ⁹⁵⁴ Samadani ⁹⁵⁵ sciences, whose noble form You made a mirror for the manifestation of Your Lordly Essence, a locus for Your most beautiful lights and holy attributes, a receptacle for the jewels of Your unseen secrets and Your Furqanic ⁹⁵⁶ descents; and by Your Name with which You supported his spirit and preserved his reality from sudden calamities and soulful desires; and by Your Name with which You strengthened his heart and purified his outward and inward from everything that would turn him aside in secret and in public; and by Your Name with which You connected what is between You and him, and taught him to call upon You thereby in the presence of his first kingdom and the presence of his second kingdom, and extended his hand to dispose in Your sovereign dominion: that You bless him and his family with all these blessings, and with every modality of blessings with which You bless, such that no kind of blessing remains that You have not blessed him with, magnifying his rank before You and the loftiness of his station supported by manifest unveilings; and that You make the blessing upon him and the letters of his name, and what they indicate of his perfections (above which there is nothing but Your perfection), and all that I have asked of You by Your great, majestic, Fardanic Names, as springs from which rivers of blessings flow into whatever my hand has touched of what You have given me from the treasuries of Your wealth, and as seas from the seas of Your perpetual giving that engulf all the worlds of my poverty; and that You make my wealth in You and from You a perpetual overflow of drawing from the sea of Your absolute wealth and Your perpetual, certain giving; and that You tear open for me in that from the customary blessings what You tore open for the elect among Your prophets and saints, so that behind what is taken there is double what is taken, as the taking is repeated and extends throughout all the temporal roots and branches; and that You make that an unseen overflow by which You give me rest from the fatigue of looking expectantly to the wealthy among Your creatures, and make me a cause of wealth for Your saints, and an isthmus between them and Your enemies. Indeed, You are powerful over all things. O God, I ask You by Your Name with which You were You, and He is He, and by the comprehensive Name sanctified from whole, part, connection, and separation, whose 'how' none knows but You, that You answer my supplication and show me the reality of the answer to a supplication from Your supplications, since You said—and Your word is truth—'Call upon Me, I will answer you' ⁹⁵⁷; and that You make the secret of this noble Prophet flow in the world of my soul and spirit, written on the pages of my heart and my tablet, so that I may contemplate it with the eye of my insight and witness the lights of his manifestations in my inward and my secret, and swim with him in the sea of prophethood and tawhid ⁹⁵⁸, and find intimacy with him in the solitudes of reception and tafrid ⁹⁵⁹, and that my aspiration may ascend with him to the presences of jam‘ ⁹⁶⁰ and the court of the Throne of the Majestic; and make us among those whom the incoming tides of Muhammadan love have drawn to the carpet of Your presences, whom the breezes of Ahmadan ⁹⁶¹ proximity have carried to the goals of Your intimacy and the loci of Your descents, and around whom the cups of drink have revolved in the station of nearness and purity until they vanished in the beauty of Your attributes and the vision of Your Essence, so that their forms swayed with the vision of the lights of pre-eternity, the springs of their tongues gushed forth with the gifts of sciences and wisdoms, their spirits became intoxicated with the wine of everlastingness, their souls yearned for the witnessing of arrival and meeting, and their secrets roamed in the meadows of Beauty and Majesty.

Their thoughts are in the fields of intimacy and boldness ⁹⁶²; in every state they have from that a time and longing, and ecstasy and taste, and love and rapture, and distraction and agitation. They have in existence nothing but the sole pursuit of arrival and connection, and the vision of the Possessor of Might and Majesty ⁹⁶³, rejoicing in what God has given them of His bounty, delighted with what He has granted them of His nearness and union. O God, grant us from what You have granted them of the sublime stations, and bestow upon us what You have favored them with of abundant gifts and graces, and make for us what You have loosed our tongues with of supplications and entreaties a key to the doors of happiness, and a ladder for acquiring the gifts of the sciences of direct knowledge ⁹⁶⁴ and benefit. And open for us, O God, from Yourself a manifest victory, and teach us from Yourself a beneficial and firm knowledge, and appoint for us from Yourself a helping authority, and raise for us among Your friends a lofty rank and a weighty standing, and bequeath to us from their gnoses, sciences, and secrets an abundant portion and a renowned station, and make us in all that supported by Your victory, encompassed by Your kindness and goodness, calling by You to You, guiding by You to You, guided, accepted, well-pleasing, friends and elect, sincere and pious to Your servants, until we return to You in the company of Your friends, and stand before You in the adornment of Your elect. And grant us intercession with You for those who love us, and those who look upon us and know us, and those who belong to us for Your sake, and desire to attain Your generosity and bounty, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O God, if my deeds have fallen short of the degrees of certainty ⁹⁶⁵, and of joining the ranks of the righteous, and the weakness of humanity has prevented me from reaching the stations of the sincere, and the deficiency of human nature has brought me down from attaining the stations of the veracious ⁹⁶⁶, and the obstacles of desires have hindered me from ascending to the heights of the brought near ⁹⁶⁷, and the bonds of pleasures and vanities have held me back from reaching the works of the certain, then Your great bounty takes charge of me and elevates me, and Your abundant blessings draw me to the stations of Your nearness and choose me, and the light of the love of Your beloved Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, leads me by the reins of longing to Your presence and guides me, and the praise of his pure qualities joins me to the stations of the veracious and selects me. And I am strong in hope and expectation in You; never has a servant who hoped in You and stood at Your door and relied on Your bounty and generosity been disappointed. So weigh down the scale of Your justice with my good deeds, and do not lighten the scale of Your bounty with my evil deeds, and do not make what You have granted of knowledge nullify my work, nor what You have bestowed of gnosis corrupt my effort and reverse my hope. And protect me from knowledge that begets ignorance of You, and save me from certainty that makes me imagine doubt in my knowledge of You. And provide me with trust in You and the sweetness of love for You that expands my breast, eases my affair, raises my mention, sanctifies and guards my thought, magnifies my worth, diffuses my fragrance, multiplies my reward, forgives my burden, whitens my face among the faces of Your righteous servants in my life and after my death, and at my emergence from my grave. And make my entire aspiration for You, my entire desire in You, my entire fear from You, my entire hope in You, my entire trust upon You, and take charge of me with the eye of Your care, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O You of pure names, O He who is God, and none is named that name but He. O You of beautiful attributes, O You of beautiful praise, O Benefactor who encompasses all creatures with His goodness. He is God on earth and God in heaven; by God, how sweet is His praise and how desirable! It becomes fragrant and sweet whenever His name is repeated, and souls find rest in His remembrance. Mouths delight in His names whenever remembrance of them is repeated; hearts yearn and meet Him with longing, so may they never cease yearning and meeting Him. O Creator of the Footstool ⁹⁶⁸, the Throne ⁹⁶⁹, and heaven, and Creator of all beneath and above them, and Provider of those on land, sea, and air—none provides for them but He. O Lord of all creation, nay, their God, He whose gifts encompass all worlds. Whatever lord there is, You are its Lord; whatever master there is, You are its Master. Exalted are You, O Possessor of Might, Dominion, and Eternity; You have no rivals nor any like. He whom describers cannot fully describe—who can grasp His meaning with understanding? Intellects fall short of the essence of His Being; they know not 'how' He is nor 'what' He is. Eternal, Last, with no beginning ever, and no end; ages perish and He remains. There is no before for Him; He is Living, and no living after Him; there is no like to Him, so that He might endure as His life endures. Every god other than Him is false, even if some people say so and name it. Far be it from Him what a likener ⁹⁷⁰ says of Him, and far be it from Him from the falsehood of the negator ⁹⁷¹. And as for those who suppose a son or a father for Him, or a male or female attributed to Him—glory be to Him in His Essence and Attributes! Sufficient for you in His transcendence is 'Say: He is God, the One' ⁹⁷². To God belong beautiful names; when a supplicant calls upon Him by them, He answers and responds. You have counted ninety-nine expressions, and He has promised the one who enumerates them Paradise ⁹⁷³. I have made the houses of poetry when I composed them, and strung them in the necklace as a knot of His names. By them, man attains the utmost of his desire, and the needy reach what they wish. By them, the outcast is saved from what he fears, and the distressed is sufficed against what he dreads. When an affair befalls, take them as a provision for what you desire or what you guard against. If you fear a weighty matter and find no way out, call upon the Generous and say: 'O He' ⁹⁷⁴. To You we have sought means by You, O God, first; the first thing the servant begins with is his Master. By Your bounty, O Possessor of bounty, might, and wealth, and by the glory whose foundation is lofty, and by the abundant generosity of which You are worthy—were it not for it, we would not be on earth, were it not for it. By what we have known of Your kindness, mercy, compassion, and all-encompassing veil towards us. Likewise, we have sought means by Your names, by which Your supplicant attains what he wishes. And they are: He, God, there is no god in the heavens and the earths worshipped but He. O Knower of the unseen like the witnessed, encompassing the farthest thing as the nearest. Most Merciful of this world—excellent are the people of this world—Compassionate specifically to the believers in the Hereafter. He is the Most High King, whose kingdom never ceases; He is the Holy, holy are His names. Peace—and in the mention of peace is safety; and in the Faithful ⁹⁷⁵ is security for us on the day we meet Him. He is God truly, ever Dominant over us, counting all that we have done. Mighty, Compeller, and Proud together—glory be to Him above the idols of unbelief and their 'Uzza' ⁹⁷⁶. He is the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner of creation; He created everything with power and proportioned it. He is God, Forgiving, Subduer, Exalter; He is God, Bestower, bestowing what He wills. He is God, Provider, Opener, Enricher; Knower of what the conscience hides and reveals. He is God, called the Constrictor, then the Expander; and none abases or exalts but He. Exalter, Abaser of whom He wills by His might; All-Hearing, All-Seeing of everything and in His sight. He is the Judge, the Just, the Kind to His creation; Aware of what we count and forget. Forbearing, Great in forgiveness of every sinner; Forgiving of a great sin that covers one. Forgiver of the sinful, Thankful to the grateful, for the great—how mighty and exalted is He! Preserver, Nourisher—nothing wearies Him; Reckoner, Majestic—sufficient for us if we remember Him. Generous, Watcher, nay, Answerer, All-Encompassing, Wise, Loving—He does not waste what He loves.

His supreme attributes are Majid ⁹⁷⁷, Ba'ith ⁹⁷⁸, Shahid ⁹⁷⁹, and Haqq ⁹⁸⁰; all of these He is named. Among them are Wakil ⁹⁸¹, al-Qawiyy ⁹⁸², al-Matin ⁹⁸³, and al-Waliyy ⁹⁸⁴; whoever He is pleased with, He takes as His friend. Hamid ⁹⁸⁵, Fa''al ⁹⁸⁶, then Muhsi ⁹⁸⁷, Mubdi' ⁹⁸⁸, Mu'id ⁹⁸⁹; He is al-Muhyi ⁹⁹⁰, al-Mumit ⁹⁹¹ over His creatures. He is al-Hayy ⁹⁹², al-Qayyum ⁹⁹³, and al-Wajid ⁹⁹⁴ to whom belongs al-Tawl ⁹⁹⁵; He is al-Majid ⁹⁹⁶, al-Wahid ⁹⁹⁷, Allah ⁹⁹⁸. He is al-Samad ⁹⁹⁹ al-A'la ¹⁰⁰⁰, who is Qadir ¹⁰⁰¹ and Muqtadir ¹⁰⁰²; whatever He wills among creation, He executes. Muqaddim ¹⁰⁰³ of this before that, Mu'akhkhir ¹⁰⁰⁴; whoever He wills, He brings near, and whoever He wills, He distances. He is al-Awwal ¹⁰⁰⁵, known as the First of the first; He is al-Akhir ¹⁰⁰⁶, al-Baqi ¹⁰⁰⁷ who does not perish. He sees His command as manifest, while He is hidden; whatever the Generous Lord manifests and conceals. He is Allah, the Wali ¹⁰⁰⁸; none other than Him administers affairs; He is al-Muta'ali ¹⁰⁰⁹; there is no end to His loftiness. He is al-Barr ¹⁰¹⁰ and al-Tawwab ¹⁰¹¹; if His servant repents, He meets him with acceptance and good tidings. And Muntaqim ¹⁰¹² against every tyrant and aggressor; He inflicts severe vengeance on His enemies. 'Afuww ¹⁰¹³, Ra'uf ¹⁰¹⁴, Malik al-Mulk ¹⁰¹⁵; He is Dhu al-Jalal wa al-Ikram ¹⁰¹⁶ for those who befriend Him. He is Allah, called Muqsit ¹⁰¹⁷; He is Jami' ¹⁰¹⁸, Ghaniyy ¹⁰¹⁹, and Mughni ¹⁰²⁰; whoever befriends Him, He enriches. He is al-Mani' ¹⁰²¹, al-Darr ¹⁰²², who is al-Nafi' ¹⁰²³; He is al-Nur ¹⁰²⁴, al-Hadi ¹⁰²⁵, al-Badi' ¹⁰²⁶ for those who see Him. He is Allah, Baqi ¹⁰²⁷ with no end to His permanence, and Warith ¹⁰²⁸ of all creation when He annihilates them. Rashid ¹⁰²⁹; how often He has guided the servant to guidance; Sabur ¹⁰³⁰ over that which He is not pleased. By His Most Beautiful Names ¹⁰³¹ which are sanctified, and His supreme attributes, all of them we ask Him. And whatever name, hidden or manifest, besides them, we are ignorant of it. And by the prophets, then the angels altogether, by those whom the Remembrance did not name and named, and by all the wives of the Prophet and his family, those who cared for him and befriended him, and by all the Followers after his Companions, and those with whom the Merciful is pleased and satisfied, and by the saints and the chosen ones among His servants, and those He has singled out for nearness to Him and brought close, and whatever the Merciful has created or will create, likewise from creation until the day we meet You, by every means of our seeking access to Your generosity, which encompasses, O Knower, O Allah, You relent toward the sinner among us and accept the evildoer despite what he has done and are pleased with him, and You forgive the sin of the sinners and cast away sins and erase every sin we have committed. So O Generous Lord, and the best of those who are called upon: 'My Lord, my Lord, my Lord!' Bestow upon us, O Generous One, a mercy that encompasses all creation from us and covers them. And do not let our enemies and enviers gloat over us for the abundant blessing, and put them to shame. And whoever plots against us with his plot and whoever seeks to harm us, seize him and destroy him and empower his enemies. I have repelled, by You, O Allah, against the throat of one who intends harm, exalting the humiliation of him who debases himself by You. May the faces of the people be disgraced away from us; whoever sees us, when the Lord of the heavens blinds him. And ease for us provision, and pay our debts, and bless us, O Lord, in what we possess. And complete for us the blessing of the religion entirely, and whoever among us dies in faith, take him. And grant us security, contentment, and rain in the farthest and nearest lands, so that the hills and valleys are watered; let no side of the earth remain, even a span, without being watered. And bless us in crops and livestock always, and increase for us the herbage of plants and their pasture. And make prices low for us in every town, and enrich all creation, each according to his means. And multiply the reward of Your servant, and make his recompense Your pleasure, and make the Garden of Eternity his abode. For great sin is easy for You; and grant it, if by pardon and from You we have linked it. And protect me, my children, my mother, my father, my family, my neighbors, and those we have accompanied. And spread over us the shade of Your veil, and suffice us against evil and disliked things that we fear. And send blessings upon the best of all creation, the most exalted in rank and the highest of all creatures. This is the description of the Sea of the Message ¹⁰³², the superior, the beautiful, filled with the lights of Allah's attributes and His Most Beautiful Names. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid ¹⁰³³, filled with the sciences of the Essence and the jewels of the Furqan ¹⁰³⁴, and the ambassador of the Unseen, protected by the lights of prophethood in secret and in public. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of the realities of the Names and Attributes, and the witnesses of knowledge and certainty, and the trustee of revelation, informing about Allah of what was and what will be in the worlds of spirits and all existences. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of openings and sciences and the rising lights of gnosis, and the crown of divine care, lofty in station with his Lord in rank and dignity. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of watchfulness and witnessing and the unveilings of direct vision, and the cave of protection, protected from the afflictions of deviation, fluctuations, and accidents of time. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of love and attraction, and absorption in his Lord and passionate longing, and the lamp of knowledge whose light shines in the niches of the people of proximity and nearness. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of fear and awe, life and faith, and the path of guidance, heralding the attainment of happiness, pardon, and forgiveness. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of realities and the gifts of gnosis, elucidation, and clarification, and the house of honor and glory, firm in structure, pillars, and foundations. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master and lord Muhammad, the Sea of Tawhid, filled with the lights of rational and transmitted proofs and decisive demonstrations, and the sword of truth cutting with its arguments the appearances of the people of denial, obstinacy, and tyranny.

O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid ¹⁰³⁵, filled with gifts of grace, generosity, bounty, and beneficence, and the messenger of the King sent as a mercy to angels, humans, and jinn. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, the beautiful full moons, and his companions, the stars of guidance and the brides of the gardens ¹⁰³⁶, with a blessing that grants us the gifts of contentment and good pleasure, and saves us from the causes of rejection, distance, severance, and abandonment, and protects us from the trial of the questioning ¹⁰³⁷, the heat of the blazing fire, and the torment of the flames, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. (323) O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the subtleties of tahlil ¹⁰³⁸, takbir ¹⁰³⁹, and tahmid ¹⁰⁴⁰, and the bride of the divine presences ¹⁰⁴¹, seated upon the thrones of intimacy with Allah and of tafrid ¹⁰⁴². O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of sanctification, transcendence, and glorification, and the sultan of the kingdom, adorned in the robes of tabattul ¹⁰⁴³, inqita' ¹⁰⁴⁴, and tajrid ¹⁰⁴⁵. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the jewels of gratitude, praise, and commendation, and the qutb ¹⁰⁴⁶ of sainthood, immersed in the seas of sahwu ¹⁰⁴⁷, mahwu ¹⁰⁴⁸, and fana' ¹⁰⁴⁹. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (324), the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of guidance and piety, and the star of prophethood, whose light shines in the heaven of exaltation and ascension. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of awe and majesty, and the moon of messengership, surrounded by the gleams of brilliance, splendor, and perfection. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of humility, supplication, and entreaty, and the perfect guide, pure in words and deeds. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of calling to Allah in the station of intimacy and boldness ¹⁰⁵⁰, (325) and the one who pleases in speech, walking on the path of guidance in all actions and states. So bless him, O Allah, and his family, perfect in virtues and qualities, and his companions, the lions of battle who scattered the ranks of the people of deviation and error, with a blessing that saves us from all afflictions, calamities, and terrors, and leads us by it to the paths of salvation in both worlds, and treats us kindly with all kindnesses in the present and the future, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. A beloved has captivated my heart with beauty; excuse my tormented heart, O men. I am one whom the Sultan of Splendor has annihilated; you see nothing of me but a fleeting phantom. How can the heart find solace from one who dwells in it? Excuse my tormented heart, O men. I have a beloved who resides in Taybah ¹⁰⁵¹; he has taken my soul while my body is in ailment. Patience without him is not sweet for an hour; excuse my tormented heart, O men. His face puts to shame the moons of the night; if it appears to the sun, it inclines to set. How can life be sweet for me after him? Excuse my tormented heart, O men. My soul has borne the meanings of his love; the lofty mountains could not bear what it bore. (326) The heart cannot conceal passion; excuse my tormented heart, O men. The heart cannot define passion; indeed, defining passion is sheer impossibility. I have a beloved whose love has made me his captive; excuse my tormented heart, O men. He has folded for me his union in his separation; everything he does is for me a connection. His love has made me like dust; excuse my tormented heart, O men. No stone or tree in the desert beholds him without greeting him with speech. If anyone beholds him, he hopes for ardor; excuse my tormented heart, O men. I am one whose very being is diminished by his turning away, yet he draws me near, for he is the pole of perfection. No palm trunk could endure his separation; excuse my tormented heart, O men. How could my heart not yearn for him, when to him inclines every living being that inclines? How could I not ransom my soul for my master? Excuse my tormented heart, O men. A bull ¹⁰⁵² envied him, my soul envied him; rather, I would ransom him with my soul and wealth. He visited him—would that he had visited me! My heart is ever attached to him. Woe to one whose eye is from him a smile. A smile that rent the skirts of darkness. For the core of the heart, from him is healing. For my cure from sickness and affliction. (327) Excuse my tormented heart, O men. Is there a strong one who sees a light like mountains? And over them He spread a light like shadows. Excuse my tormented heart, O men. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with lights, In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. {And your God is one God; there is no deity except Him, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.} And the shade of prophecies, lush, desiring, addressing with His words: {Allah—there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence. Neither drowsiness nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except what He wills. His Kursi ¹⁰⁵³ extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.} O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (328), the ocean of tawhid, filled with lights, {Alif, Lam, Meem. Allah—there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence. He has sent down upon you the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed the Torah and the Gospel before, as guidance for the people. And He revealed the Criterion. Indeed, those who disbelieve in the verses of Allah will have a severe punishment, and Allah is Exalted in Might, the Owner of Retribution. Indeed, from Allah nothing is hidden in the earth nor in the heaven. He is the one who forms you in the wombs however He wills. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.} And the light of insight of the intelligent and the dull, with His words: {Allah witnesses that there is no deity except Him, and so do the angels and those of knowledge, maintaining justice. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.} O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and patron Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid,

of tawhid ¹⁰⁵⁴ filled with lights: So exalted is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth. There is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne, and the essence of unique beauty, whose station is magnified by His saying: "There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer; [he is] concerned over you and to the believers is kind and merciful." ¹⁰⁵⁵ "But if they turn away, [O Muhammad], say, 'Sufficient for me is Allah; there is no deity except Him. On Him I have relied, and He is the Lord of the Great Throne.'" ¹⁰⁵⁶ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of his saying: "Indeed, they do not prostrate to Allah, who brings forth the unseen in the heavens and the earth and knows what you conceal and what you declare. Allah—there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Great Throne." ¹⁰⁵⁷ And the rising of blessed fortune, upon whom was revealed in His wise Book His saying: "He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed. He is the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, the Sovereign, the Pure, the Perfection, the Bestower of Faith, the Overseer, the Exalted in Might, the Compeller, the Superior. Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate with Him. He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise." ¹⁰⁵⁸ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of: "O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, [from Him] to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him that you may be guided." ¹⁰⁵⁹ And the season of renewed good, distinguished by the secret of tawhid: "And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, [being] upright, [and] one, [saying], 'There is no deity except Him.' Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Him." ¹⁰⁶⁰ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "He sends down the angels with the inspiration of His command upon whom He wills of His servants, [saying], 'Warn that there is no deity except Me, so fear Me.'" ¹⁰⁶¹ And the support of the shaykh ¹⁰⁶² and the murid ¹⁰⁶³ intended by His saying: "And We did not send any messenger before you except that We revealed to him that there is no deity except Me, so worship Me." ¹⁰⁶⁴ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "And do not invoke with Allah another deity. There is no deity except Him. Everything will be destroyed except His Face. His is the judgment, and to Him you will be returned." ¹⁰⁶⁵ And the blessing of the teacher and the student, reminding of His saying: "Is there any creator other than Allah who provides for you from the heaven and earth? There is no deity except Him, so how are you deluded?" ¹⁰⁶⁶ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "And to Allah, your Lord, belongs the dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you turned away?" ¹⁰⁶⁷ And the mercy for the near and far, whose rank is honored by His saying: "And obey Allah and obey the Messenger; but if you turn away, then upon our Messenger is only clear notification. Allah—there is no deity except Him. And upon Allah let the believers rely." ¹⁰⁶⁸ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity. To Him is due all praise in the first and the last. And His is the judgment, and to Him you will be returned." ¹⁰⁶⁹ And the possessor of sound intellect and correct opinion, interpreted from his Lord by His saying: "And to Allah, your Lord, the Creator of everything, there is no deity except Him, so how are you deluded?" ¹⁰⁷⁰ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord. There is no deity except Him, and turn away from those who associate others with Allah." ¹⁰⁷¹ And the trustee of revelation, named the Overseer, the Witness, informing of the oneness of his Lord by His saying: "Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, if you should be certain. There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death. [He is] your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers." ¹⁰⁷² O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "And [mention] the man of the fish ¹⁰⁷³, when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, 'There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.'" ¹⁰⁷⁴ And the tongue of praise and glorification, for the One who commands supplication in His exalted saying: "He is the Ever-Living; there is no deity except Him, so call upon Him, [being] sincere to Him in religion. [All] praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds." ¹⁰⁷⁵ O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His saying: "Allah—there is no deity except Him. To Him belong the best names." ¹⁰⁷⁶ And the adornment of recitation and tajwid ¹⁰⁷⁷, distinguished by the lofty rank and the highest station. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "Your god is only Allah, other than whom there is no deity. He encompasses all things in knowledge." ¹⁰⁷⁸ And the book of eloquence, free from discordance and complexity, illuminating insight, heart, form, and body. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "And your god is one God. There is no deity except Him, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful." ¹⁰⁷⁹ And the station of intimacy with Allah and singling Him out, observed with the eye of care, magnification, and veneration. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "Say, 'He is my Lord; there is no deity except Him. Upon Him I rely, and to Him is my return.'" ¹⁰⁸⁰ And the presence of cutting off to Allah, and the praised abstraction in the Torah, the Gospel, the openings of surahs ¹⁰⁸¹, and the clear verses of the Book. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "Forgiver of sin, Acceptor of repentance, Severe in punishment, Owner of abundance. There is no deity except Him; to Him is the destination." ¹⁰⁸² And the possessor of great character and praiseworthy description, sent as a mercy to humans and jinn, the noble and the lowly, the insignificant and the rich and the poor. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "So know that there is no deity except Allah and ask forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and believing women." ¹⁰⁸³ And the fountain of blessings and increased good, adorned with the sash of acts of obedience, acts of drawing near, and righteous deeds. O Allah, send blessings and peace upon our master and lord Muhammad and upon the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of tawhid, filled with the lights of His exalted saying: "Allah—there is no deity except Him. He will surely assemble you on the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. And who is more truthful than Allah in statement?" ¹⁰⁸⁴

And the unique pearl of the poetic string and the quintessence of the ode, whose birth was announced by the unseen voices ¹⁰⁸⁵ and whose mission was foretold by the monks of old and new. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, the ocean of divine oneness ¹⁰⁸⁶, filled with the lights of His saying: {And mention the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with complete devotion, Lord of the east and the west; there is no deity except Him, so take Him as a Disposer of affairs.} And the best of those in whom praise is pleasing and in whom the fortified structure ¹⁰⁸⁷ was born, supported by His saying: {O you who are wrapped in garments, arise to pray the night except for a little, half of it or reduce from it a little, or add to it, and recite the Quran with measured recitation.} So bless him, O Allah, and his family with a blessing by which we attain from Your pleasure and the pleasure of Your Messenger an abundant portion and a great reward, and by which we are given in this world and the Hereafter a good remembrance and beautiful praise, and by which we obtain in the highest paradises (336) a lofty rank and a splendid station, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, I ask You, O my Lord, by the sanctity of these great and majestic verses, and what they contain of declarations of His oneness ¹⁰⁸⁸, glorifications, and sanctifications, and the blessed and abundant names, and by the right of what is deposited in them of indications and symbols, many secrets and benefits, abundant, that You regard me with the awe of Your majesty, and create in me Your noble character and beautiful attributes, and answer my supplication as You answered the supplication of Your servant Jonah, when he called out in the darkness: {There is no deity except You, exalted are You; indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.} And deliver me from distress and anxiety and all kinds of hardship, as You informed in Your saying: {So We responded to him and saved him from the distress. And thus do We save the believers.} And fulfill my hope in You and my desire, and provide me with such good certainty in You that eases the waiting for my wish, and such beautiful expectation of You that I become certain of attaining my aspiration. And protect me from the oppression of the oppressors, the malice of the malicious, the envy of the envious, and the transgression of the transgressors. And give me the reward of the former ones and the recompense of the doers of good, and make me among Your righteous servants. And do not let me fall short in Your sight (337) and be pleased with me. And appoint for me from Yourself a protector and a helper. And preserve for me the completion of Your favor, and grant me the continuity of Your protection, and guard me from incurring Your disgrace, and do not deprive me of the encompassment of Your mercy. Indeed, You are the Possessor of faithfulness and covenant, compassion and tenderness and mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, make the remainder of our lives in worship, and whatever beautiful action and good description You have honored us with, increase it. And grant me the repetition of hastening to good and striving for Your pleasure. And deal with us in all our affairs with acceptance and intercession. And seal for us at death with the best, the two words of testimony ¹⁰⁸⁹, by Your grace and generosity, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Lord of the worlds. O master of the two worlds ¹⁰⁹⁰, O you who tomorrow is hoped for us as the strongest support, O refuge of beauty in essence and description, whose image shone with uniqueness, O you whose face is a full moon and a sun, both blended in him at the moment of criticism, O you whose human nature is light and intimacy, with a gentle smile in gatherings, O you whose forbearance is an encompassing ocean, covering friends and foes, O you whose bounty is Noah's flood, overflowing upon the beloved and the adversaries (338), O you who never disappoints a servant who comes to his doors empty-handed, O you who never said 'no' to a distressed caller, O you who never repels a lover who seeks refuge in his presence after distance, O you whose praise is my work and my treasure, my mount to my Lord and my provision, succor me with Your glances, do not leave me captive to poverty and deprivation, and do not veil my heart from You for a moment, for You, by Allah, are my reliance. And my children and my family, be a protector for them forever from recurring distress. Upon you and your family be blessings continuously, and upon your companions, as long as the driver urges the camels. And this is the description of the ocean of divine oneness, filled with the lights of the sciences of the divine Essence and the secrets of the meanings of the Quranic declarations of His oneness (339). O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of divine love nothing more radiant has emerged than his great tree, which grew in the land of luminous hearts and was adorned with the jewels of the attributes and names. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of lordly gifts nothing more excellent has emerged than his blessed tree of pure origin and lineage, by which everyone who enters under his Muhammadan shade and is attributed to him is honored. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of divine sciences ¹⁰⁹¹ nothing more perfect has emerged than his celestial tree, from whose Muhammadan influx every being on earth and in heaven derives. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (341), Your beloved, from whose oceans of the Furqanic law ¹⁰⁹² nothing more beautiful has emerged than his sublime tree, which grew in the meadows of the perfections of the masterly ¹⁰⁹³ and was clothed in the garments of glory and praise. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of gnostic truth ¹⁰⁹⁴ nothing more majestic has emerged than his lofty tree, whose fruits of knowledge are within reach, and whose branches shine with the lights of revelation and the sciences of the Quran. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of all-encompassing mercy ¹⁰⁹⁵ nothing more noble has emerged than his luminous tree, which Allah has set as a parable in His wise Book, saying: {Neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills.} From the masters of spiritual openings ¹⁰⁹⁶ and stations of excellence ¹⁰⁹⁷. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad (342), Your beloved, from whose oceans of essential lights ¹⁰⁹⁸ surrounded by majesty and veneration nothing more radiant has emerged than his great tree, which grew in the land of luminous hearts and was adorned with the jewels of the attributes and names.

Better than his sublime tree, planted by the perfection of his great rank and the majesty of his magnificent glory. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of solitary secrets nothing has emerged more delightful than his chosen tree, fruitful with the remembrance of Allah and its spreading branches fragrant with the breezes of Allah's mercy. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of eternal prophecy nothing has emerged more radiant than his prophetic tree, praised in the sacred hadiths and the Book of Allah, and his sainthood supported by divine opening and victory from Allah. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of holy messengership nothing has emerged higher than his Ahmadic tree ¹⁰⁹⁹, surrounded by the shining lights of Allah, and his lordship favored by Allah's preference. O Allah, bless and grant peace to our master and lord Muhammad and to the family of our master Muhammad, Your beloved, from whose oceans of tawhid ¹¹⁰⁰ and faith nothing has emerged purer than his Muhammadan tree, planted in the garden of Allah's good pleasure, irrigated by the overflow of Allah's covering, swaying with the breeze of Allah's love, inscribed on its trunk: 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,' fruitful with the subtle graces of Allah's remembrances, yielding its fruit at every season for the souls of loving devotees, its lights shining at every moment upon the faces of enraptured and bewildered ones, the suns of its gnoses rising upon the hearts of perfect poles ¹¹⁰¹ and firmly fixed pegs ¹¹⁰², the oceans of its support flowing upon the hearts of yearning pure ones and arriving solitary ones ¹¹⁰³, the breezes of its fragrances spreading in the assemblies of those who remember and the elite of the substituting knowers ¹¹⁰⁴, its secret permeating the innermost beings of those who cut themselves off for Allah and the great ones of the sincere hidden ones ¹¹⁰⁵, and the cups of its wine circulate on the carpet of those brought near and the very beings of beloved ones in ecstasy, and its remembrance is sweet in the ears of acting scholars and the heads of excellent imams. The fruit of that tree are fruits of various kinds, sweet in taste, abundant in benefit and utility. Among them is a fruit that manifests all attributes and the Essence, by which He nurtures the hearts of saints and veracious ones. And among them is the fruit of witnessing the Essence, bequeathing to the hearts of the unitarians tawhid, tafrid ¹¹⁰⁶, tajrid ¹¹⁰⁷, fana' ¹¹⁰⁸, baqa' ¹¹⁰⁹, sahwu ¹¹¹⁰, mahwu ¹¹¹¹, hayra ¹¹¹², and walahu ¹¹¹³. And among them is the fruit of the manifestation of attributes, bequeathing to the hearts of the gnostics according to the degree of its manifestation. For each attribute bequeaths a reality from those attributes. Thus, the inheritance of the attribute of majesty is awe, fear, and reverence; the inheritance of grandeur is astonishment, shame, and modesty; the inheritance of glory is dread and anxiety; the inheritance of beauty is love, longing, and passionate love; the inheritance of knowledge is gnosis of the divine sciences; the inheritance of power is miracles; the inheritance of the light of hearing is hearing the voices of the unseen; the inheritance of the light of sight is true discernment and vision of the unseen ¹¹¹⁴, and the unseen of the unseen; the inheritance of the light of address and speech is insight into secrets, bewilderment, and rapture in intimacy and whispered prayer; the inheritance of life is the life of the heart through the Lord, the life of the intellect through the light of the heart, and the life of the spirit through the spirit of union; the inheritance of the vision of pre-eternity and everlastingness is sighs, tears, ecstasies, and thunderstruck states; the inheritance of the vision of the lights of His action is wisdom in the inner dimensions of acts, the subtleties of stations, and the realities of dealings, and the perception of the light of the witnessed signs in every atom from the mirror of the horizons; and the inheritance of the will is sincerity of servitude and purity of love, and all desires become easy for him as long as he is connected to the will. Whoever eats a fruit from the fruits of that tree lives with eternal life and remains with its pre-eternal and everlasting lights; after that, no accidents of annihilation befall him, nor does any languor or weariness overtake him in the love of his Lord. ❖ The Truth made me witness from His eternal secret ❖ What I did not attain through my knowledge or my deeds ❖ And He clothed me from my intimacy with His countenance ❖ With the light of manifestation, so I need no garments ❖ And I was before His existence, in existence through Him ❖ A secret traversing through stages and states ❖ So in the angels, spirits, and holy ranks ❖ Of the unseen, tidings, and messengers ¹¹¹⁵ ❖ And in the thrones, tablets of inscriptions, and in ❖ What was before and what I witnessed before me ❖ And in the rising places of the lights of beauty, as ❖ Determination willed in my like and in my similars. What a blessed tree, pure in origin and beginning, ever full of joy, expansion, and openness! Its root is fixed in the earth of bodies, its branch soaring in the heaven of spirits, its watering from the water of the streams of divine care, its seed from the seeds of the blessing of sufficiency, its guardian is the witness of preservation and protection, its enclosure is the secret of particularity and sainthood, its trunk is knowledge and gnosis, its branches are truthfulness and love, its leaves are ecstasy and longing, its fruits are the secret and taste, and its light is intimacy.

And wisdom, and its holy gardens and mercy, and its shade is union and proximity, and its bliss is divine care and high rank. It yields its fruit at every season from the varieties of stations, the noblest of states, the most sublime of miracles, the highest of perfections, the truest of unveilings and insights, the brilliant signs, and the breaking of customs, for the people of attractions and aspirations, openings and secrets and breaths, and the masters of states, gnoses, and allusions, realities and divine sciences ¹¹¹⁶, subtle expressions, weeping and supplication in the darkness of obscurities, the subtleties of intimate prayer, nearness and approach, and ascent to the ranks of high stations and the highest degrees, descents, inspirations, and receptions. How beautiful is this tree, splendid, dazzling in beauty, surpassing, created from the light of the Essence, adorned with the perfection of attributes, planted in the land of obedience, watered with the water of proximities. Its root is firmly fixed in the manifestations of prophecies and messages, and its branch is lofty in the heaven of guidance to God and indications. The lights of divine love cover it with connections and blessings, and at every moment the breezes of felicity and blessings shake it. Its trunk is joy and delight, its branches are obedience and piety, its leaves are tenderness, compassion, and patience, its fruits are forbearance, humility, and gratitude, its blossoms are asceticism, chastity, and infallibility, its guardianship is striving in God's pleasure and service, its gardens are intimacy with the remembrance of God, its shade is absorption and passing away in God, its taste is standing at God's limits. It yields its Muhammadan fruit at every season for the people of ecstasy and rapture in God's beauty, and it scatters its Ahmadine ¹¹¹⁷ blossom for the people of witnessing who are absent in God's perfections, and it opens its prophetic light for the people of right guidance and success who obey God's commands, and it gathers its Chosen ¹¹¹⁸ fruit for the people of the secret and sainthood who trust in what is with God. Then upon them shine the lights of majesty and beauty, and upon them flow the supplies of bestowed gnoses and divine sciences ¹¹¹⁶, and upon their tongues flow the springs of holy wisdoms and the meanings of goodly words. So upon this Prophet, alluded to by this tree, fragrant with the breezes of breaths, and upon everyone who draws from it among the people of high ranks and degrees, be the best of prayers and the purest of greetings, the most sublime of mercies and the most abundant of blessings, a prayer by which the clouds of good things pour down upon us in life and after death, and whose hidden kindness encompasses us in all movements and stillnesses. Amen, amen, amen. And praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. ❖ The light of existence, its secret and its perfection * Without him, existence would not have attained the sought goal The spirit of the worlds, its repose and its life * Its fragrant basil, a most delightful meaning The pole of realities, subtleties, and fine points * And the precedents, exalted in them as the Bestower The treasure of praises, benefits, and resources * And the sources, pleasant in them as a drink ¹¹¹⁹ No one of deep, goodly origin in creation * Is goodly except that Taha ¹¹²⁰ is the most goodly God the Generous has not brought a near one near * Except that Taha is nearer to Him Who was or who will be approaching * Muhammad the Praised, the Chosen One? He is the light of the light of light, the light of His Essence * The heart of the divinely guided has been imbued with his light He is the star of the presences, the pearl of their holiness * Turned about by the fingers of subtle kindnesses May He who possesses the Throne bless him, his family, and his companions * As long as love for them grows in us And this is the description of the tree of divine unity, whose branches hang with the fruits of intimacy with God and singling Him out ¹¹²¹.

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1. al-sirr al-aʿẓam : The Supreme Mystery; a Sufi term referring to the innermost divine secret or the highest spiritual reality.
2. qāmūs al-risālah al-afkham : The lexicon of the Most Glorious Message; a metaphorical description of the Prophet Muhammad as containing all knowledge of the prophetic message.
3. ʿālam sirrī : The world of my secret; a Sufi concept referring to the innermost spiritual realm of the individual.
4. al-awṣāf al-aḥmadiyyah : The Ahmadine attributes; attributes of the Prophet Muhammad, derived from his name Ahmad, indicating his praiseworthy qualities.
5. al-abḥur al-lāhūtiyyah : The divine oceans; a Sufi term for the seven divine attributes or manifestations of God.
6. tamudduhu : Supply it; refers to the seven divine oceans providing spiritual sustenance to the ocean of prophethood.
7. al-jabarūtiyyah : Of the Omnipotent; relating to jabarūt, the realm of divine power and might.
8. al-Būṣīrī : Sharaf al-Din al-Busiri (1211–1294), Egyptian poet known for his poem al-Burda (The Mantle) praising the Prophet Muhammad.
9. wārid al-dhawq : The arrival of taste; a Sufi term for a spiritual experience or inspiration that comes to the heart.
10. ḥadatha ʿan al-baḥri wa lā ḥaraja : Speak of the sea without constraint; a proverb meaning one can speak freely about something vast without fear of exaggeration.
11. al-awtād : The pillars; in Sufism, the highest-ranking saints who uphold the spiritual world.
12. al-afrād : The solitaries; a rank of saints who are unique and independent in their spiritual station.
13. yawma 'kun' : The day of 'Be'; refers to the primordial moment of creation when God said 'Be' and it was.
14. al-ṣūrah al-qudsiyyah : The holy form; the spiritual form or essence of the Prophet Muhammad.
15. al-khatm al-madhkūr : The mentioned Seal; refers to the Prophet Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets.
16. al-Ḥallājī al-madhhab : Of the Hallajian school; referring to Mansur al-Hallaj (858–922), a Persian mystic known for his ecstatic sayings.
17. al-Mūsawī al-sharb : Of Mosaic drink; indicating a spiritual lineage or affinity with Prophet Moses.
18. al-ʿĪsawī al-qurb : Of Jesus-like proximity; indicating closeness to God akin to Prophet Jesus.
19. sayyid al-aqṭāb : Master of the Poles; the highest spiritual authority, often referring to the Prophet Muhammad.
20. al-nūr al-jalālī al-muḥammadī : The majestic Muhammadan light; the luminous essence of the Prophet Muhammad.
21. al-Khiḍriyyah : The Khidrian; relating to al-Khidr, a mysterious figure in Islamic tradition associated with esoteric knowledge.
22. ʿayn al-ʿayn : The eye of the eye; a phrase indicating the essence or source of something.
23. al-madad al-muḥammadī : The spiritual support or influx from the Prophet Muhammad, often considered the source of all spiritual aid for the community.
24. al-tuḥaf al-aḥmadiyya : Gifts associated with the Prophet Muhammad, whose name Aḥmad is a variant; refers to spiritual gifts from his essence.
25. faqīr hā’im : A 'poor lover' in Sufi terminology, one who is spiritually impoverished and ecstatically lost in love for God.
26. ʿayn al-jamʿ : The 'eye of union' or 'essence of gathering,' a Sufi term for the station where multiplicity is seen as one in God.
27. wird : A daily litany or devotional recitation, often a set of prayers or Qur'anic verses.
28. al-muqarrabūn : The 'intimate ones' or those brought near to God, a high rank in Sufi hierarchy.
29. al-muṣṭafawī : Relating to al-Muṣṭafā, 'the Chosen One,' a title of the Prophet Muhammad.
30. al-ʿilm al-bāṭinī : Inner or esoteric knowledge, as opposed to exoteric religious sciences.
31. al-ghawth : The 'Succor' or 'Helper,' the highest-ranking saint in the Sufi hierarchy, believed to be the spiritual pole of the age.
32. quṭb al-aqṭāb : The 'Pole of Poles,' the supreme spiritual axis or leader of the saints.
33. al-kāf wa al-nūn : The Arabic letters K and N, referring to God's creative command 'Kun' (Be).
34. tawḥīd : The oneness of God, the central doctrine of Islam; here, the jewels of tawhid symbolize the spiritual realization of divine unity.
35. al-uns wa al-idlāl : Intimacy and boldness; spiritual states of closeness to God where the servant feels familiarity and confident approach.
36. azhār al-asrār al-qudūsiyya : Flowers of holy secrets; symbolic of spiritual insights and divine mysteries.
37. al-qidam : Pre-eternity; a divine attribute referring to God's existence without beginning.
38. asrār al-ḥaqāʾiq : Secrets of realities; esoteric truths about the divine and creation.
39. riḍwān : Divine pleasure or satisfaction; a high spiritual station of being pleased with God's decree.
40. al-mawāhib wa al-maʿārif : Gifts (spiritual endowments) and gnoses (direct knowledge of divine realities).
41. nuqṭat sirr Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm : The point of the secret of the Basmala; a Sufi concept referring to the primordial point from which all creation emanates.
42. al-asrār wa al-laṭāʾif : Secrets (divine mysteries) and subtle graces (spiritual faculties or subtle centers).
43. khuluq ʿaẓīm : Great moral character; Quran 68:4.
44. nūr tawḥīd : Light of the declaration of divine oneness (Lā ilāha illā Allāh).
45. wa-ilāhukum ilāhun wāḥid... : Quran 2:163.
46. al-futūḥāt : Openings; spiritual illuminations or revelations.
47. al-ʿawārif : Spiritual cognitions; intuitive knowledge of divine truths.
48. laqad jāʾakum rasūl... : Quran 9:128.
49. arbāb al-mushāhada wa al-kawāshif : Masters of witnessing (direct vision of divine realities) and unveilings (kashf).
50. Yā Sīn... : Quran 36:1-5.
51. Ṭā Hā... : Quran 20:1-8.
52. ghayb al-ghuyūb : The unseen of unseens; the most hidden aspect of the divine essence.
53. Kaʿba : The sacred shrine in Mecca; here used metaphorically for the Prophet as a focal point of spiritual visitation.
54. qul yā ayyuhā al-nās... : Quran 7:158.
55. miḥrāb : Prayer niche; symbol of devotion and spiritual station.
56. Ḥā Mīm ʿAyn Sīn Qāf... : Quran 42:1-4.
57. al-tajallī al-aqdas : The most holy self-disclosure; God's manifestation of His essence.
58. al-taʿyīn : Determination; the process of divine self-manifestation in specific forms.
59. al-tālid wa al-ṭāriq : The ancient (eternal) and the new (temporal); all encompassing.
60. a-lam nashraḥ... : Quran 94:1-2, 94:5-6 (paraphrased).
61. raḥmāniyyat al-dhāt : The mercy of the Essence; God's inherent attribute of mercy.
62. al-walī : Saint; a friend of God.
63. al-ʿārif : Gnostic; one who possesses direct knowledge of God.
64. Alif Lām Mīm... : Quran 3:1-4.
65. al-ummahāt al-jawāmiʿ : Comprehensive mothers; a term of praise for the Companions, indicating they encompass all virtues.
66. al-mawāhib wa al-maʿārif : Spiritual gifts and divine gnoses; refers to the Prophet's bestowed graces and esoteric knowledge.
67. al-nawāfiḥ al-rabbāniyya : Lordly fragrances; spiritual emanations from the Divine.
68. al-sirr al-fardānī al-maktūm : The solitary hidden secret; a Sufi term for the innermost divine mystery.
69. al-ʿilm al-ladunnī : Divine knowledge; knowledge directly bestowed by God without means.
70. Āyat al-Kursī : Verse 2:255 of the Quran, emphasizing God's sovereignty.
71. Sūrat al-Ṭūr : Chapter 52, verses 48-49 of the Quran.
72. Sūrat Yā Sīn : Chapter 36, verses 1-5 of the Quran.
73. al-ʿAzīz al-Raḥīm : The Exalted in Might, the Merciful; two of God's names.
74. Quran 9:128 : Part of verse 9:128.
75. Quran 9:128 : Continuation of verse 9:128.
76. Quran 9:128 : End of verse 9:128.
77. Quran 9:129 : Part of verse 9:129.
78. Quran 2:115 : Part of verse 2:115.
79. baḥr al-ʿulūm : Ocean of sciences: a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad's vast knowledge.
80. al-lawḥ : The Tablet: the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ) in Islamic cosmology, where divine decrees are inscribed.
81. al-qalam : The Pen: the first created thing, used by God to write destiny on the Tablet.
82. al-ʿarsh : The Throne: the greatest creation, encompassing all, symbolizing God's sovereignty.
83. al-kursī : The Footstool: a creation beneath the Throne, often associated with divine knowledge.
84. al-ʿaql al-rūḥī : Spiritual intellect: a higher intellect beyond ordinary reason, associated with spiritual insight.
85. al-nūr al-subūḥī : Transcendent light: a light that glorifies God, beyond comprehension.
86. al-ridāʾ al-muʿlam : Embroidered mantle: a garment with marks, symbolizing the Prophet's attributes.
87. akābir al-fuḥūl : Greatest scholars: literally 'great stallions,' referring to eminent scholars.
88. arbāb al-aḥwāl : Masters of spiritual states: Sufi term for those who experience divine states (aḥwāl).
89. al-adhwāq : Tastes: spiritual experiences or intuitions in Sufism.
90. al-mulk : Kingdom: the physical world.
91. al-malakūt : Dominion: the spiritual or angelic realm.
92. al-sabʿ al-ṭibāq : Seven heavens: the seven layers of heaven.
93. jannat al-riḍā : Garden of Divine Pleasure: a level of paradise.
94. al-riḍwān : Good Pleasure: God's ultimate satisfaction.
95. al-jahābidha al-aʿlām : Eminent scholars: literally 'the discerning ones, the flags.'
96. najd : Najd: a region in central Arabia.
97. tihāma : Tihamah: a coastal region in western Arabia.
98. al-bayt al-ḥarām : Sacred House: the Kaaba in Mecca.
99. sālif al-qidam : Pre-eternity: time before creation, eternity without beginning.
100. al-ḥudūth wa al-qidam : Contingency and pre-eternity: the created and the eternal.
101. al-mawājid : Ecstasies: spiritual states of ecstasy in Sufism.
102. khulafāʾuhu : His vicegerents: spiritual deputies or successors.
103. tajalliyāt : Self-disclosures: manifestations of divine attributes.
104. al-ḥaḍra al-ʿindiyya : Divine Presence: the station of proximity to God.
105. aḥādīth : Hadiths: sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad.
106. al-ṣafī al-aʿlā : Highest station: the elite spiritual rank.
107. al-mawj al-makfūf : Restrained wave: a term for a limited sea or ocean.
108. al-maqām al-maʿlūm : Known station: a specific spiritual station.
109. al-bayt al-maʿmūr : Frequented House: a celestial counterpart of the Kaaba in heaven.
110. al-raqq al-manshūr : Unfurled Scroll: a heavenly book or record.
111. al-baḥr al-masjūr : Inflamed Sea: a sea mentioned in the Quran (52:6), often interpreted as a sea of fire or a boiling sea.
112. al-kitāb al-masṭūr : Inscribed Book: a heavenly book recording deeds.
113. bahr al-‘ulum : Ocean of sciences; a title for the Prophet Muhammad indicating his vast knowledge.
114. Qaba Qawsayn : The distance of two bow-lengths; refers to the Prophet's proximity to Allah during the Mi'raj (Ascension), based on Quran 53:9.
115. karubiyyun : Cherubim; a rank of angels close to Allah.
116. hur : Houris; beautiful maidens of Paradise.
117. sunna : The prophetic tradition; the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad.
118. Ahmad : Another name of the Prophet Muhammad, meaning 'most praiseworthy'.
119. Quraysh : The noble tribe of the Prophet Muhammad in Mecca.
120. Kaaba : The sacred house of worship in Mecca, direction of prayer for Muslims.
121. Hijaz : The region in western Arabia where Mecca and Medina are located.
122. tawhid : The oneness of Allah; the core Islamic belief in monotheism.
123. baḥr al-ʿulūm : Ocean of sciences; a title for the Prophet Muhammad indicating his vast knowledge.
124. laṭāʾif al-laṭāʾif : Subtleties of subtleties; the most refined spiritual realities.
125. kitāb al-waḥy al-masṭūr : The inscribed book of revelation; refers to the Qur'an or the Prophet's heart as a receptacle of revelation.
126. nawāfiḥ al-fatḥ : Fragrant breezes of opening; spiritual openings or illuminations.
127. rumūz al-ishārāt al-wahbiyya : Symbols of bestowed allusions; divinely granted symbolic indications.
128. fawātiḥ al-suwar : Openings of the surahs; the disconnected letters at the beginning of some Qur'anic chapters.
129. al-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya : Sacred hadiths; sayings of the Prophet where he conveys divine words not part of the Qur'an.
130. al-futūḥāt al-ṣamadiyya : Eternal openings; divine illuminations from the Self-Sufficient (al-Ṣamad).
131. Qur'an 52:1-3 : Reference to Surah al-Tur, verses 1-3.
132. ahl al-ishārāt al-ʿirfāniyya : People of gnostic allusions; Sufi masters who interpret scripture symbolically.
133. ʿulūm ladunniyya : Esoteric sciences; knowledge directly bestowed by God.
134. sirr al-aḥmadī : Ahmadine secret; the inner reality of the Prophet Muhammad, associated with his name Ahmad.
135. al-bayt al-maʿmūr : The inhabited house; a celestial counterpart of the Kaaba, here symbolizing the Prophet's essence.
136. al-ʿilm al-ladunnī : Divinely bestowed knowledge; esoteric knowledge from God.
137. al-baḥr al-masjūr : The overflowing sea; a Qur'anic phrase (52:6) interpreted as the Prophet's ocean of knowledge.
138. al-thaqalān : The two weighty ones; humans and jinn.
139. Aḥmad : Another name of the Prophet Muhammad, meaning 'most praiseworthy'.
140. Kawthar : A river in Paradise granted to the Prophet; also a surah of the Qur'an.
141. bahr al-sharīʿa : Ocean of the Sacred Law: a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the comprehensive source of Islamic law.
142. manhal : Fountainhead: source from which one drinks, here referring to the Prophet's direct access to divine knowledge.
143. ʿiṭr al-nasama : Fragrance of the breeze: a poetic description of the Prophet's spiritual influence.
144. al-mulk wa al-malakūt : The Kingdom and the Dominion: the visible and invisible realms of creation.
145. ṣaḥīḥ al-āthār : Sound traditions: authentic hadiths and reports from the Prophet.
146. muʿanʿan : With continuous chains: a hadith transmission term meaning each narrator heard from the next.
147. musalsal : Sequences: a type of hadith with a consistent chain of narrators.
148. bayt al-nubuwwa : House of Prophethood: the Prophet's lineage and family.
149. asrār : Mysteries: esoteric spiritual knowledge.
150. quṭb al-wilāya : Pole of Sainthood: the highest spiritual authority in Sufism.
151. al-ghuyūb : The Unseen: the realm of divine mysteries.
152. maʿārif : Gnosis: direct experiential knowledge of God.
153. ahl al-ḥaqāʾiq : People of realities: advanced spiritual knowers who perceive divine truths.
154. madām al-maḥabba : Wine of love: intoxicating spiritual love for God and the Prophet.
155. sulṭān al-mamlaka : Sultan of the Kingdom: the Prophet's sovereignty over creation.
156. zayn al-ṭabīʿa : Adornment of nature: the Prophet's perfection reflected in the natural world.
157. rān wa ḥijāb : Rust and veil: spiritual impurities that cover the heart.
158. manār al-hudāt : Beacon of the guides: the Prophet as the guiding light for all spiritual guides.
159. ʿarūs al-ḥaḍarāt : Bride of the Divine Presences: the Prophet as the most beloved in the spiritual realms.
160. imām al-sarrāt : Imam of the Mysteries: the Prophet as the leader in esoteric knowledge.
161. ādāt al-taʿrīf : Definite article: the Arabic 'al-' in 'al-Sharīʿa', indicating uniqueness.
162. ghayth wa wasm : Rain and mark: metaphors for the Prophet's beneficial influence and distinguishing traits.
163. shamāʾil : Noble traits: the Prophet's physical and moral characteristics.
164. amīn Allāh : Trustworthy of Allah: the Angel Gabriel, entrusted with revelation.
165. ʿulūm ladunniyya : Divine knowledge: knowledge directly from God, without intermediary.
166. asrār wahbiyya : Bestowed mysteries: spiritual insights granted by God's grace.
167. bahr al-ḥaqīqa : Ocean of the Reality: the Prophet as the manifestation of divine truth.
168. huwiyyāt : Identities: the essential realities of all things.
169. imām al-ṭarīqa : Imam of the Path: the Prophet as the leader of the spiritual path (Sufism).
170. insān ʿayn al-ḥaqīqa : Pupil of the eye of Reality: the Prophet as the focal point of divine truth.
171. wathīqa : Covenant: the Prophet's pledge to intercede for his community.
172. al-ḥaqīqah : Reality; in Sufism, the ultimate divine truth or the esoteric dimension of faith.
173. barzakh : Isthmus; an intermediate realm or entity that connects two different realities.
174. jabarūt : The realm of divine omnipotence; one of the spiritual worlds in Sufi cosmology.
175. majmaʿ al-baḥrayn : Meeting place of the two seas; a Qur'anic reference (18:60) symbolizing the junction of the spiritual and material.
176. aqṭāb : Poles; the highest ranking saints in the Sufi hierarchy.
177. awtād : Pegs; a rank of saints who are the spiritual supports of the world.
178. afrād : Individuals; a rank of saints who are unique and independent.
179. aʿrāf : The Heights; a Qur'anic term (7:46) for a place between Paradise and Hell, also used for a rank of saints.
180. ḥarandā : A place name, possibly a reference to a location associated with spiritual knowledge.
181. ramal : A poetic meter; also a type of sand, here likely referring to a poetic form.
182. bahamūt : A mythical cosmic beast in Islamic cosmology, often associated with the earth's foundation.
183. nūn : The Arabic letter Nun; also a Qur'anic chapter (68:1) and symbol of the inkwell or divine knowledge.
184. sīnā, sāghīn, fāran : Sinai, Saghin, and Paran; biblical and Qur'anic locations associated with divine revelation.
185. Surah Nūn wal-Qalam : Surah 68 of the Quran, which begins with the letter Nun and the oath by the pen; in verse 4, Allah describes the Prophet as having an exalted character.
186. arwāḥ rūḥāniyya : Spiritual souls or spirits; here referring to the spiritual beings or the souls of the prophets and saints that were revived by the Prophet's mission.
187. Rukn : The corner of the Kaaba containing the Black Stone; also known as al-Rukn al-Aswad.
188. Ḥaṭīm : A semicircular area adjacent to the Kaaba, considered part of the original structure built by Abraham.
189. Zamzam : The sacred well in Mecca, believed to have sprung forth for Hagar and Ishmael.
190. Qāba Qawsayn : A Quranic phrase (53:9) meaning 'two bow-lengths' or closer, referring to the Prophet's proximity to Allah during the Night Journey (Mi'raj).
191. shaṭaḥāt : Ecstatic utterances or paradoxical sayings of Sufi mystics, often expressing profound spiritual states.
192. Abdāl : A rank of saints in Sufism, literally 'substitutes'; they are believed to be the spiritual poles of the earth.
193. Awtād : A rank of saints in Sufism, literally 'pegs'; they are considered the spiritual supports of the world.
194. fiṭra : The innate disposition or primordial nature with which every human is created, inclined towards monotheism and goodness.
195. ḍamm : A Sufi term referring to the state of intimate union or embrace with the Divine or the Prophet.
196. ḥabīb : Beloved; a common title for the Prophet Muhammad, emphasizing his beloved status.
197. maskh : Transformation; a divine punishment where a person is transformed into a lower form, as mentioned in Islamic tradition.
198. khasf : Engulfment; a punishment where the earth swallows a person or community.
199. ta‘jīl : Hastened punishment; immediate divine retribution in this world.
200. raḥīq : Pure wine; a term used in the Quran for the drink of Paradise (sealed nectar).
201. Ṭāhā : One of the names of the Prophet Muhammad, derived from the Quranic chapter Taha.
202. al-Qahhār : The All-Compelling; one of the names of Allah, indicating His absolute power and dominance.
203. lisān al-ḥāl : The tongue of the state; a Sufi concept referring to non-verbal communication through one's spiritual state or condition.
204. al-‘ayn : The eye; can refer to the evil eye or to the physical eye; contextually, it may mean pointing with the eye as a gesture of request.
205. yawm al-faza‘ al-akbar : The Day of the Great Terror; a reference to the Day of Judgment when all creation will be terrified.
206. baḥr al-raḥma : Ocean of mercy: a Sufi metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the source of divine mercy.
207. ḍarīḥihi al-munawwar : His illuminated tomb: refers to the Prophet's grave in Medina, often visited for blessings.
208. al-raḥma al-raḥmūtiyya : Merciful mercy: a superlative form emphasizing the attribute of mercy.
209. al-ḥikma al-jabarūtiyya : Omnipotent wisdom: wisdom associated with the divine attribute of omnipotence (jabarūt).
210. al-anwār al-malakūtiyya : Lights of the kingdom: spiritual lights from the realm of malakūt (the angelic or intermediate world).
211. al-asrār al-qudūsiyya : Holy secrets: divine mysteries pertaining to the attribute of holiness (quds).
212. al-daʿawāt al-raghbūtiyya : Supplications of desire: prayers motivated by longing and aspiration.
213. al-jalāla al-ʿaẓmūtiyya : Majestic grandeur: the attribute of divine majesty and might.
214. al-qulūb al-rahbūtiyya : Hearts in fear: hearts that are in a state of reverential fear of God.
215. al-madad al-muḥammadī : Muhammadan support: spiritual assistance channeled through the Prophet Muhammad.
216. al-sirr al-aḥmadī : Ahmadine secret: the esoteric reality of the Prophet, associated with his name Ahmad.
217. al-muṣṭafawiyya : Mustafawian: pertaining to al-Muṣṭafā, an epithet of the Prophet meaning 'the Chosen One'.
218. Ṭāhā : Taha: one of the names of the Prophet Muhammad, also the title of Surah 20 of the Quran.
219. baḥr al-nūr : Ocean of light: a Sufi epithet for the Prophet Muhammad, indicating his primordial luminous nature from which all creation emanates.
220. al-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya : Sacred hadith: sayings of the Prophet Muhammad in which he conveys divine revelation in his own words, distinct from the Qur'an.
221. al-ʿārifīn : Knowers: Sufi gnostics who have attained direct knowledge of God through spiritual experience.
222. al-mulk wa al-malakūt : The kingdom and the dominion: in Islamic cosmology, al-mulk is the visible material world, and al-malakūt is the invisible spiritual realm.
223. ḥaẓāʾir al-quds : Enclosures of holiness: the highest spiritual realms or paradises, often associated with the divine presence.
224. al-ʿurūj wa al-isrāʾ : Ascension and night journey: the Isra and Mi'raj, the Prophet's night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and his ascension through the heavens.
225. qinṭār : Qintar: a large unit of weight, often used metaphorically to denote an immense amount.
226. al-wasīla : The means: a special rank in Paradise granted to the Prophet Muhammad, mentioned in the Qur'an (17:79) and hadith.
227. al-dārayn : Both abodes: this world and the Hereafter.
228. al-ḥawḍ : The Basin: the Prophet's celestial pool (Hawd al-Kawthar) in Paradise, from which the faithful will drink on the Day of Judgment.
229. al-futūḥāt : Openings: spiritual unveilings or illuminations, a term used in Sufism for divine disclosures.
230. al-mawlawiyya : Moulawi: relating to the Mawlawi order (Mevlevi), a Sufi order founded by Jalal al-Din Rumi, but here used as an epithet for the Prophet's spiritual authority.
231. al-muṣṭafawī : Mustafawi: derived from al-Mustafa (the Chosen One), an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad.
232. al-walī : Saint: a friend of God (wali Allah), a person who has attained closeness to God through spiritual devotion.
233. Rusul : Messengers; prophets who were sent with a new law or scripture.
234. Mazīd : Increase; here meaning that after the Prophet, no further increase in guidance or light is possible.
235. Anwār Lāhūtiyya : Divine lights; a Sufi term referring to the luminous manifestations of the Divine Essence.
236. Qadīm Abadī : Ancient and eternal; attributes of God, here applied to the Prophet's essence in a metaphorical sense.
237. Āl : Family; specifically the Prophet's household, including his wives, children, and descendants.
238. Madad : Succor or spiritual support; a term used in Sufism for divine assistance.
239. Arsh : Throne; the Throne of God, here used metaphorically for the Prophet's elevated station.
240. Qāba Qawsayn aw Adnā : Two bow-lengths or nearer; a Qur'anic phrase (53:9) describing the Prophet's proximity to God during the Mi'raj.
241. al-ta'ab : Weariness or fatigue, often used in spiritual contexts to denote the toil of the soul.
242. maqam : Station or spiritual rank in Sufism, referring to the Prophet's exalted status.
243. alif lam mim : Reference to the page number or section marker in the original text.
244. al-furqan : The Criterion, a name for the Qur'an.
245. al-sirr al-ahmadi : The Ahmadine secret, referring to the esoteric reality of the Prophet Muhammad.
246. alif lam mim : Page number or section marker in the original text.
247. al-fasaha wa al-bayan : Eloquence and clarity, key concepts in Arabic rhetoric and Islamic sciences.
248. bahr al-sirr : Ocean of the secret; a Sufi term referring to the Prophet Muhammad as the vast repository of divine mysteries.
249. al-Rahman 'allama al-Qur'an : Qur'an 55:1-2; 'The Most Merciful taught the Qur'an.' Here interpreted as referring to the Prophet Muhammad.
250. al-sab' al-mathani : The seven oft-repeated verses; usually refers to Surah al-Fatiha, but here may refer to the seven verses of the Qur'an or other repeated passages.
251. khalaqa al-insan : Qur'an 55:3; 'He created man.' Here interpreted as the perfect man, i.e., the Prophet Muhammad.
252. al-haqiqa al-ahmadiyya : The Ahmadic reality; the primordial spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, often considered the first creation.
253. al-latifa al-muhammadiyya : The Muhammadan subtlety; the spiritual essence of the Prophet Muhammad.
254. al-jawhara al-mustafawiyya : The Mustafawi jewel; the chosen essence of the Prophet, from Mustafa, 'the Chosen One.'
255. 'allamahu al-bayan : Qur'an 55:4; 'He taught him eloquence.' Here interpreted as a secret knowledge beyond expression.
256. ghayb al-huwiyya : The unseen of His Ipseity; the hidden dimension of God's essence.
257. 'alim al-ghayb... : Qur'an 72:26-27; 'Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His unseen to anyone except whom He approves as a messenger.'
258. al-'ilm al-ladunni : Divinely bestowed knowledge; knowledge given directly by God without intermediary.
259. fa-awha ila 'abdihi ma awha : Qur'an 53:10; 'So He revealed to His servant what He revealed.'
260. sab'an min al-mathani wa al-Qur'an al-'azim : Qur'an 15:87; 'And We have given you seven of the oft-repeated verses and the great Qur'an.'
261. al-aqtab al-'arifun : The gnostic poles; the highest ranking saints in the Sufi hierarchy.
262. al-kitab al-furqani : The Furqanic Book; the Qur'an as the criterion (furqan) between truth and falsehood.
263. al-fath al-rahmani : The Rahmanic opening; a divine opening or illumination from the Most Merciful.
264. al-fahm al-samadani : Samadani understanding; understanding derived from the attribute of al-Samad (the Eternal, the Self-Sufficient).
265. ana min Allah wa al-mu'minun minni : A hadith; 'I am from Allah and the believers are from me.'
266. ya ayyuha al-nas inni rasul Allah ilaykum jami'an : Qur'an 7:158; 'O people, I am the Messenger of Allah to you all.'
267. biḥusbān : Precise calculation or reckoning; refers to the orderly motion of celestial bodies.
268. al-nūr al-muḥammadī : The Muhammadan Light; a Sufi concept of the primordial light of Prophet Muhammad from which all creation emanates.
269. al-sirr al-aḥmadī : The Ahmadine secret; refers to the inner, esoteric reality of Prophet Muhammad, often associated with his name Ahmad.
270. yusjudān : They prostrate; indicates submission and worship of God by all creation.
271. al-durra al-muṣṭafawiyya : The pearl of the Chosen One; a metaphor for Prophet Muhammad.
272. Qur'an 48:10 : Verse about pledging allegiance to God, which is done through the Prophet.
273. Qur'an 4:80 : Verse stating that obedience to the Messenger is obedience to God.
274. Qur'an 49:1 : Verse prohibiting putting oneself before God and His Messenger.
275. Qur'an 49:2-3 : Verses about lowering voices before the Prophet.
276. lā taʿqilūn : You do not reason; part of Qur'an 49:4.
277. Qur'an 55:7 : Verse about God raising the heaven.
278. Qur'an 55:7 : Part of the same verse; 'and He set up the balance'.
279. al-amāna : The trust; refers to Qur'an 33:72, where the trust was offered to the heavens, earth, and mountains, but they declined, and man accepted it.
280. Qur'an 55:8 : Verse: 'That you not transgress in the balance'.
281. Jābir : Jabir ibn Abd Allah, a companion of the Prophet, known for narrating many hadiths.
282. Lawḥ : The Preserved Tablet; a celestial tablet containing all divine decrees.
283. Qur'an 55:9 : Verse: 'And establish weight with justice'.
284. Qur'an 55:9 : Continuation: 'and do not diminish the balance'.
285. al-ʿārifīn : The knowers; Sufi term for those who have direct experiential knowledge of God.
286. al-waʿd wa al-waʿīd : Promise and threat; refers to God's promises of reward and threats of punishment.
287. tawḥīd : The oneness of God; the central Islamic doctrine of monotheism.
288. fa-naẓartu : So I looked; the author describes his spiritual insight into the human form as a balance.
289. الوِلاَيَةُ : Guardianship or authority, often referring to spiritual authority or closeness to God.
290. العِنَايَةُ : Divine care or attention, God's special regard for a person.
291. المُرَاقَبَةُ : Watchfulness or self-awareness, a spiritual state of being mindful of God's presence.
292. الفِرَاسَةُ : Discernment or spiritual insight, the ability to perceive inner realities.
293. الجَامِكِيَّةُ : Stipends or salaries, here referring to the distribution of spiritual or physical provisions.
294. القُدْرَةُ : Power or ability, here personified as a faculty that distributes nourishment.
295. العَرَضُ : Presentation or offering, possibly referring to presenting deeds before God.
296. النَّفْسُ الأَمَّارَةُ : The commanding soul, the lower self that incites to evil.
297. الشَّمْسُ : The sun, here metaphorically referring to the soul or a spiritual state.
298. al-khawāṣṣ al-muqarrabīn : The elite servants who are brought near to God, a Sufi term for those who have attained intimate proximity to the Divine.
299. al-sirr al-muḥammadī : The Muhammadan mystery; the primordial spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, considered the first creation and the source of all existence.
300. al-jamāl al-aḥmadī : The Ahmadine beauty; a reference to the Prophet Muhammad's spiritual beauty, derived from his name Ahmad.
301. Qur'an 55:11-12 : Reference to the fruits and plants in Paradise.
302. Qur'an 13:4 : Verse about the diversity of fruits despite being watered by the same water.
303. al-shams al-zāhira : The radiant sun; a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the source of spiritual illumination.
304. al-awwal wa al-ākhir wa al-ẓāhir wa al-bāṭin : Attributes of God: the First, the Last, the Manifest, the Hidden; also applied to the Prophet Muhammad in a derivative sense.
305. jawāmiʿ al-kalim : The comprehensive words; a gift to the Prophet Muhammad enabling him to express profound meanings concisely.
306. ḥadīth : A prophetic tradition describing the Prophet's experience of divine knowledge.
307. Qur'an 57:3 : Verse listing the divine attributes: He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.
308. Qur'an 15:28 : Part of the verse where God announces the creation of man.
309. Qur'an 15:26 : Refers to the creation of Adam from clay.
310. ʿalā ṣūrat al-raḥmān : A hadith stating that Adam was created in the form of the Merciful, indicating a reflection of divine attributes.
311. ḥadīth : A tradition describing the light of Adam's progeny shining from his back.
312. Qur'an 38:71 : God's declaration of creating man from clay.
313. tasnīm : A spring in Paradise mentioned in the Qur'an (83:27), symbolizing the highest spiritual drink.
314. kawthar : A river in Paradise given to the Prophet Muhammad, symbolizing abundant spiritual blessings.
315. Qur'an 15:29 : God's command to breathe His spirit into Adam.
316. Qur'an 15:29 : God's command to the angels to prostrate to Adam.
317. qibla : The direction of prayer; here used metaphorically for the focal point of divine lights.
318. kāf wa nūn : The Arabic letters K and N, referring to the creative command 'Kun' (Be).
319. kun fa-yakūn : The divine command 'Be, and it is,' signifying instantaneous creation.
320. ḥadīth qudsī : A sacred tradition where God addresses the Prophet Muhammad, indicating his primordial role in creation.
321. يَصْطَفِي : Chooses, selects; from the root ص ف و, indicating purification and selection.
322. فَضَّلْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ : We have favored some of them above others; refers to the varying degrees of prophets.
323. بُرْهَان : Proof, clear evidence; here referring to the Prophet Muhammad or the Quran.
324. نُور : Light; a key term in Sufi cosmology, often referring to divine light or the light of Muhammad.
325. مِشْكَاة : Niche; a small recess in a wall for a lamp, symbolizing the heart or the human receptacle of divine light.
326. المحمدي : The Muhammadan; referring to the spiritual reality or form of the Prophet Muhammad.
327. بسيمة محمد : The smiling countenance of Muhammad; a reference to the Prophet's radiant face.
328. محمد : The name Muhammad written in ancient script; the letters are mim, ha, mim, dal.
329. مَارِجٍ مِّن نَّارٍ : A smokeless flame of fire; the substance from which jinn were created.
330. أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ : I am better than him; Iblis's claim of superiority over Adam.
331. الْبَرْدِ وَالْيُبْسِ : Cold and dryness; qualities associated with earth, giving stability.
332. حَدِيثِ أَنَسٍ : Hadith of Anas; a prophetic tradition narrated by Anas ibn Malik.
333. وَأَشْرَقَتِ الْأَرْضُ بِنُورِ رَبِّهَا : And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord; Quran 39:69.
334. مِنْهَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمْ : From it We created you, and into it We will return you; Quran 20:55.
335. النَّارَ الَّتِي وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ : The Fire whose fuel is people and stones; Quran 2:24.
336. النَّارَ الَّتِي أُعِدَّتْ لِلْكَافِرِينَ : The Fire which has been prepared for the disbelievers; Quran 3:131.
337. آمِينَ : Amen; a supplication for acceptance.
338. ṭīna : Primordial clay or substance from which Adam was created, often symbolizing the spiritual essence of humanity.
339. Mawlawī : Relating to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī (Mawlānā) or his Sufi order, the Mevlevi; here it may refer to the spiritual lineage or type of illumination.
340. al-nūr al-Muḥammadī : The Muhammadan Light, a concept in Sufism referring to the pre-existent light of the Prophet Muhammad through which all creation was made.
341. al-fatḥ al-mubīn : Clear victory or opening; a Qur'anic term (Sūrat al-Fatḥ, 48:1) often interpreted by Sufis as spiritual unveiling or illumination.
342. al-istiwā' : The 'establishing' or 'sitting' of God upon the Throne (Qur'an 20:5); in Sufi cosmology, a theophanic act that generates cosmic order.
343. maḥfūf : Surrounded or encompassed, often used in Sufi contexts to indicate being enveloped by divine grace or honor.
344. khabar : A tradition or report, often referring to a prophetic hadith or a narrative from Islamic sources.
345. ʿalayhi al-salām : Peace be upon him, a formula of respect used after the names of prophets and angels in Islam.
346. al-qawm : The folk: a term used by Sufis to refer to the spiritual elite, the people of the path.
347. al-'irfan : Gnosis: direct experiential knowledge of God, a key concept in Sufism.
348. al-mushahada wa al-'iyan : Witnessing and direct vision: spiritual states where the mystic perceives divine realities directly.
349. al-mawsul : The connected: possibly a reference to a stage in spiritual recitation or a specific text.
350. al-fath wa al-wusul : Opening and arrival: Sufi terms for spiritual illumination and reaching God.
351. al-tawfiq wa al-tahqiq : Success and verification: divine assistance and realization of truth.
352. al-takyif : Anthropomorphism: attributing human qualities to God, avoided in Islamic theology.
353. al-ibtida' : The beginning: possibly the primordial state or the initial stage of spiritual journey.
354. al-'azl wa al-jud : Withdrawal and generosity: God's transcendence and His bestowal of existence.
355. al-fana' wa al-mahw wa al-sukr wa al-sahw : Annihilation, effacement, intoxication, sobriety: stages in Sufi spiritual experience.
356. al-nawasif : Winds: spiritual influences or divine breaths.
357. al-isaba wa al-ijaba : Hitting the mark and response: effective invocation and divine answer.
358. Qur'an 12:108 : Verse from the Qur'an, Surah Yusuf.
359. wali : Saint: a friend of God, a term for a spiritually advanced person.
360. 'arif : Knower: a gnostic, one who has direct knowledge of God.
361. ahl al-ahwal wa al-isharat wa al-dhawq wa al-'ibarat : Masters of states, allusions, taste, and expressions: Sufi categories of spiritual experience.
362. fawatih al-suwar : Opening letters of the surahs: the disconnected letters at the start of some Qur'anic chapters.
363. Qur'an 20:1-3 : Verse from Surah Ta Ha.
364. Qur'an 68:1-4 : Verse from Surah Al-Qalam.
365. ghayba : Absence: a state where the mystic is absorbed in contemplation of God, oblivious to creation.
366. al-ruhaniyya al-ahmadiyya : Ahmadian spirituality: the spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, often called Ahmad.
367. Qur'an 27:1-2 : Verse from Surah An-Naml.
368. qab qawsayn aw adna : Two bow-lengths or nearer: a Qur'anic reference to the Prophet's proximity to God during the Mi'raj (53:9).
369. yawm alastu bi-rabbikum : The day of the primordial covenant (Qur'an 7:172) when God asked all souls, 'Am I not your Lord?' and they answered 'Yes.'
370. wajd : Ecstasy; a state of intense spiritual emotion and finding of divine presence.
371. haybah : Awe; reverential fear and majesty of God.
372. luṭf : Gentleness; divine kindness and subtle grace.
373. qurb : Proximity to God; a high spiritual station.
374. ʿārifūn : Gnostics; those who have direct experiential knowledge of God.
375. fatḥ : Unveiling; spiritual opening or illumination.
376. al-ʿilm al-ladunnī : Knowledge from God; divinely inspired knowledge given directly to the heart.
377. al-Junayd : Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd al-Baghdadi (d. 910), a prominent early Sufi master.
378. samāʿ : Spiritual audition; listening to music or poetry for spiritual elevation.
379. min hunāka : From that (event); referring to the spirit's entry into Adam's body.
380. ahl al-ṣuffah : People of the Bench; poor Companions who lived in the mosque of Medina.
381. Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr : A poet who composed the famous ode 'Banat Su'ad' praising the Prophet.
382. Abū Madyan : Abu Madyan Shu'ayb (d. 1198), a renowned Sufi saint from North Africa.
383. ʿayn maḥabbatihi : The 'spring of his love' refers to the source or essence of love for the Prophet, often used in Sufi contexts to denote the origin of spiritual attraction.
384. al-ḥaḍarāt al-qurb wa al-mudānāh : The 'presences of proximity and nearness' are spiritual stations in Sufism where the seeker draws close to God.
385. sharāb al-hawā : The 'wine of love' is a Sufi metaphor for divine love or spiritual intoxication.
386. ṣallā llāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam : Arabic phrase meaning 'may God bless him and grant him peace,' used after mentioning the Prophet Muhammad.
387. al-baʿtha al-aḥmadiyya : The mission of Ahmad, referring to the prophethood of Muhammad, as Ahmad is one of his names.
388. ahl al-hayākil al-shāriqa bi-l-anwār : People of luminous forms, a Sufi term for saints who are illuminated by divine lights.
389. al-maʾākhidh : Principles or foundations, referring to the bases of spiritual knowledge.
390. al-basāʾiṭ : Simple elements, a philosophical term for the basic constituents of the universe.
391. al-anbiyāʾ : Prophets, plural of nabī, those who receive divine revelation.
392. as-sāʿa : The Hour; refers to the Day of Resurrection in Islamic eschatology.
393. as-sāḥil : The shore; metaphorically, the limit of prophetic knowledge or law, beyond which only the Prophet Muhammad's followers may go.
394. sunna : The prophetic tradition; the practices, sayings, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad.
395. al-ʿulūm al-ladunniyya : Divinely inspired knowledge; sciences granted directly by God without intermediary.
396. Kaʿb al-Aḥbār : A Jewish convert to Islam, known for transmitting Isra'iliyyat (traditions from Jewish sources).
397. Abū ʿAbd Allāh : A kunya (patronymic) meaning 'father of Abdullah'; here referring to the shaykh.
398. al-Ṭarābulusī : Of or from Tripoli; likely Tripoli in Lebanon or Libya.
399. al-Bisṭāmī : Abu Yazid al-Bistami, a famous Persian Sufi saint known for his ecstatic utterances.
400. maraja al-baḥrayn : Quranic phrase (55:19) meaning 'He let forth the two seas'; interpreted here symbolically.
401. al-Jabarūt : The realm of divine power and might; one of the spiritual worlds in Sufi cosmology.
402. al-Lāhūt : The realm of divinity; the divine nature.
403. al-Nāsūt : The realm of humanity; the human nature.
404. al-Raghabūt : The realm of desire or aspiration; a term in Sufi cosmology.
405. al-Malakūt : The realm of angels; the spiritual world of sovereignty.
406. al-ʿAẓamūt : The realm of divine majesty and grandeur.
407. al-bayt al-maʿmūr : The Frequent House; a celestial counterpart of the Kaaba, visited by angels.
408. as-saqf al-marfūʿ : The Raised Roof; refers to the heavens or the Throne.
409. al-baḥr al-masjūr : The Inflamed Sea; a Quranic reference (52:6) to a sea filled with fire or boiling.
410. al-maqām al-maḥmūd : The Praiseworthy Station, a rank of intercession granted to Prophet Muhammad on the Day of Judgment.
411. al-yawm al-mashhūd : The Day of Witness, a reference to the Day of Judgment when all creation is gathered.
412. sayyidā shabābi ahli l-jannah : A hadith stating that al-Hasan and al-Husayn are the masters of the youth of Paradise.
413. man aḥabbahumā faqad aḥabbanī : A hadith indicating that love for al-Hasan and al-Husayn is equivalent to love for the Prophet.
414. bāraka llāhu fīkumā : A prayer of blessing for the parents of al-Hasan and al-Husayn, i.e., Ali and Fatima.
415. takharraja : Graduated or issued forth, referring to the spiritual training and influence emanating from them.
416. al-aqṭāb : The poles, the highest-ranking saints in the Sufi hierarchy.
417. madad : Spiritual aid or assistance flowing from saints to their followers.
418. karāmāt : Miracles or extraordinary acts performed by saints as a sign of divine favor.
419. al-mukhtār : The Chosen One, a title of Prophet Muhammad.
420. rayḥānatā : Two sweet basils, a metaphor for al-Hasan and al-Husayn as fragrant and beloved.
421. al-hādī : The Guide, a title of Prophet Muhammad.
422. yawm ḥashr wa jazā’ wa iḥan : The Day of Gathering, Recompense, and Sighing, referring to the Day of Judgment.
423. wird : A litany or regular devotional practice, often a set of prayers or remembrances.
424. al-imāmayn : The two Imams, referring to al-Hasan and al-Husayn as spiritual leaders.
425. al-kawnayn : The two worlds, i.e., this world and the Hereafter.
426. arāk : A tree (Salvadora persica) whose twigs are used as miswak; here symbolizing fragrance.
427. al-munsha’āt : The created vessels or ships, metaphorically referring to spiritual conveyances.
428. a‘lām : Flags or landmarks, symbolizing fixed spiritual stations.
429. al-aqṭāb al-wāṣilīn : The arriving poles, i.e., saints who have reached the highest spiritual stations.
430. kullu man ‘alayhā fān : Quranic verse (55:26) meaning 'Everyone upon it [the earth] will perish.'
431. wa yabqā wajhu rabbika dhū l-jalāli wa l-ikrām : Quranic verse (55:27) meaning 'And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.'
432. al-qadam : The Foot, a Sufi term for the level of existence or the station of the Perfect Man.
433. al-laṭāʾif : Subtle faculties or spiritual centers in Sufi psychology, often referring to the inner senses or subtle organs of perception.
434. ghuṣn bān : A branch of the willow tree, a classical Arabic poetic image for a slender, graceful figure, often used to describe the beloved.
435. al-rūḥ al-basīṭ : The Simple Spirit, a term in Islamic philosophy and Sufism referring to the universal or primordial spirit that is simple and undivided.
436. Baḥr al-Sirr : The Sea of the Secret, a Sufi title for the Prophet Muhammad, indicating his profound spiritual depth and the hidden mysteries he embodies.
437. Fātiḥat al-Dhikr : The Opening of Remembrance, a phrase indicating the Prophet as the initiator or key to the remembrance of God.
438. ʿIṭr al-Nashr : The Fragrance of Diffusion, a metaphor for the Prophet's spiritual influence spreading like a sweet scent.
439. al-Ṣafīḥ al-Aʿlā : The Lofty Tablet, a reference to the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ) in Islamic cosmology, where divine decrees are inscribed.
440. Baḥr Sirr al-Sirr : The Sea of the Secret of the Secret, an even deeper level of the Prophet's hidden spiritual reality.
441. Rūḥ al-Amr : The Spirit of the Command, a Qur'anic term (17:85) referring to a divine spirit or the essence of God's command.
442. Ghurrat al-Fajr : The Forehead of Dawn, a poetic image for the Prophet as the first light of spiritual illumination.
443. Tiryāq al-Jabr : The Antidote of Compulsion, a metaphor for the Prophet's healing power that overcomes spiritual ailments.
444. al-mutaṣarrifīn : Those who have spiritual authority and disposal over affairs by divine permission.
445. taḍawwaʿat rīāḥīnuhum : Their spiritual fragrances spread; metaphor for their virtuous influence.
446. ʿālam al-mulk : The physical, material world.
447. al-malakūt : The angelic realm; the world of divine sovereignty.
448. al-raḥamūt : The attribute of mercy; a divine quality.
449. al-jabarūt : The realm of divine omnipotence and power.
450. ḥaḍrat al-jalāl : The divine presence of Majesty; God's awe-inspiring attributes.
451. anwār al-jamāl : The lights of Beauty; God's beautiful and merciful attributes.
452. sharāb al-shaghaf : The wine of passionate love; intense spiritual intoxication.
453. wa mā hum bi-sukārā : Quranic verse (4:43) indicating they are not physically drunk but spiritually intoxicated.
454. amwātun ghayru aḥyāʾ... : Quranic verse (16:21) describing those who are spiritually dead.
455. baḥr ḥabībika al-khiḍamm al-agḥzar : The vast, abundant sea of Your Beloved (Prophet Muhammad).
456. al-sirr al-akbar : The greatest secret; the highest spiritual mystery.
457. sirr al-waḥy al-aqdas : The secret of the most holy revelation; the inner reality of divine communication.
458. ahl al-baqāʾ : People of subsistence; those who have attained eternal spiritual life in God.
459. qayyadat anfusahum li-arwāḥihim : They bound their lower selves to their spirits; subjugation of the ego.
460. al-safīna : The ship; metaphor for spiritual salvation or the means of deliverance.
461. al-ibqāʾ : Preservation; the act of keeping something; contrasted with subsistence.
462. maqām al-qurba : Station of proximity; nearness to God.
463. maqām al-maḥabba : Station of love; spiritual rank of divine love.
464. mashāhid al-ghayba : Witnessing places of absence; spiritual visions of the unseen.
465. madīnat al-tanzīh : City of transcendence; state of affirming God's incomparability.
466. kawākibuhum al-sayyāra : Their moving stars; metaphor for their spiritual states or influences.
467. budūruhum al-sāfira : Their full moons; metaphor for their perfected spiritual manifestations.
468. ḥaqāʾiqihim al-wahbiyya : Their bestowed realities; spiritual truths granted by God.
469. maqāmāt al-wiṣāl : Stations of union; stages of spiritual attainment and closeness to God.
470. ḥaẓīrat qudsika : Your holy enclosure; the sacred precinct of divine presence.
471. thawb al-ḍanā : Garment of wasting love; the state of being consumed by love.
472. bi-ḥars al-sirr : By the protection of the secret; safeguarding spiritual mysteries.
473. rabbanā ātinā... : Quranic verse (18:10) asking for mercy and guidance.
474. qul law kāna al-baḥru... : Quranic verse (18:109) on the vastness of God's words.
475. ʿālim al-ghayb... : Quranic verses (72:26-28) on God's knowledge of the unseen.
476. baḥr al-sirr al-sārī : Sea of the flowing secret; the Prophet as the source of spiritual mysteries.
477. fawātiḥ al-suwar : The opening letters of Quranic chapters; esoteric symbols.
478. baḥr al-nubuwwa : Sea of prophethood; the Prophet as the ocean of prophetic knowledge.
479. nuskhat al-ʿālam al-akbar : Copy of the greater world; the Prophet as the microcosm reflecting the macrocosm.
480. maẓāhir al-tajalliyāt : Manifestations of theophanies; places where divine attributes appear.
481. ghayb al-huwiyyāt : Unseen of identities; the hidden essence of things.
482. baḥr al-nubuwwa : Ocean of prophethood: a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the vast source of prophetic knowledge and grace.
483. mawāqiʿ al-tanazzulāt : Loci of descents: places or moments where divine revelations or spiritual inspirations descend.
484. nāmūs al-sirr : Law of the secret: a term referring to the divine law or principle governing the hidden mysteries.
485. arbāb al-aḥwāl : Masters of states: advanced Sufis who have attained various spiritual states (aḥwāl).
486. karāmāt : Miracles or wonders performed by saints as a sign of divine favor.
487. basāʾiṭ : Simples: the basic, uncomposed elements of creation.
488. murakkabāt : Composites: things formed by combining simples.
489. badhrat al-wujūd : Seed of existence: the primordial source from which all creation emanates, often identified with the Muhammadan Reality.
490. mubtadaʿāt : Originated beings: things brought into existence without preexisting matter.
491. mukhtaraʿāt : Invented things: creations that are newly made.
492. sarāʾir : Innermost secrets: the deepest, hidden aspects of the soul or spiritual state.
493. adhkār al-wahbiyya : Bestowed remembrances: litanies or invocations granted by God directly to the heart.
494. manāziʿuhum al-ṣūfiyya : Sufi aspirations: the inner strivings and spiritual aims of the Sufis.
495. ishārātuhum al-qudsiyya : Sacred allusions: symbolic or esoteric references to divine truths.
496. futūḥātuhum al-ilāhiyya : Divine openings: spiritual illuminations or unveilings granted by God.
497. ʿulūmuhum al-ladunniyya : Ladunni sciences: knowledge directly from God, without intermediary.
498. mawāhibuhum al-ʿindiyya : Bestowed gifts: spiritual gifts given directly from God's presence.
499. talaqqiyātuhum al-lawḥiyya : Tablet-receptions: receiving knowledge as if from the Preserved Tablet.
500. tajalliyātuhum al-rūḥiyya : Spiritual manifestations: theophanies or divine self-disclosures experienced spiritually.
501. maqāmātuhum al-ʿaliyya : Lofty stations: high spiritual stations on the Sufi path.
502. maẓāhiruhum al-jaliyya : Clear manifestations: outward expressions of inner spiritual realities.
503. mashākīhim al-nūrāniyya : Luminous strivings: spiritual efforts illuminated by divine light.
504. maʿārifuhum al-ʿirfāniyya : Gnostic cognitions: intuitive knowledge of divine mysteries.
505. kushūfātuhum al-ʿiyāniyya : Eyewitness unveilings: direct, experiential revelations of spiritual truths.
506. mushāhiduhum al-rabbāniyya : Lordly visions: contemplative visions of the divine.
507. karāmātuhum al-ṣamadāniyya : Samadani miracles: miracles associated with the divine attribute al-Ṣamad (the Eternal, Self-Sufficient).
508. ʿawāṭifuhum al-raḥmāniyya : Rahmani affections: compassionate emotions stemming from the divine attribute al-Raḥmān (the Merciful).
509. asmāʾika al-fardāniyya : Solitary names: the unique, singular names of God that denote His oneness.
510. mulk : Kingdom: the visible, material world.
511. malakūt : Dominion: the invisible, spiritual world of angels and meanings.
512. jabarūt : Omnipotence: the realm of divine power and attributes.
513. raḥamūt : Mercy: the realm of divine mercy and compassion.
514. munājāt al-asḥār : Night vigil supplication: intimate prayer during the pre-dawn hours.
515. ṭarīq al-wuṣūl : Path of arrival: the spiritual journey to God.
516. shurb : Drinking: a Sufi term for spiritual tasting or experiencing divine love.
517. tawḥīd : Divine unity: the oneness of God, the core Islamic doctrine.
518. darajat al-khuṣūṣiyya : Degree of speciality: a special rank of closeness to God.
519. maqām al-ṣiddīqiyya : Station of veracity: the spiritual station of the truthful (ṣiddīqūn).
520. wilāya : Sainthood: the state of being a friend of God (walī).
521. firāsa : Discernment: spiritual insight or intuition.
522. barzakh al-jamʿ : Isthmus of gathering: the intermediate realm between the divine and creation.
523. fawātiḥ al-suwar : Opening verses of the chapters: the initial letters or verses of Quranic chapters.
524. ʿulūm al-qawm : Sciences of the folk: the esoteric knowledge of the Sufis.
525. al-bayt al-ʿatīq : Ancient House: the Kaaba in Mecca.
526. al-muḥīṭ : The All-Encompassing; a divine attribute indicating God's comprehensive knowledge and power.
527. khazāʾin al-ghuyūb : Treasuries of the unseen; refers to the hidden knowledge and mysteries known only to God.
528. farādīs al-jinān : Paradises of the gardens; a poetic description of the highest levels of Paradise.
529. baḥr al-nubuwwa : Ocean of prophethood; a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad's comprehensive prophetic knowledge.
530. dawāwīn al-muqarrabīn : Registers of the near ones; records of the deeds of the angels or saints close to God.
531. al-ʿārifīn : The knowers; Sufi term for those who have attained gnosis (maʿrifa) of God.
532. ḥilaq al-dhikr : Circles of remembrance; gatherings for the ritual invocation of God's names.
533. al-futūḥāt : Openings; spiritual illuminations or divine disclosures granted to the seeker.
534. al-awrād : Litanies; fixed prayers or formulas recited regularly by Sufi orders.
535. al-aḥzāb : Hizbs; portions of the Quran or litanies recited at specific times.
536. kharq al-ʿawāʾid : Breaking of customs; miracles that suspend natural laws.
537. nafaḥāt : Breaths; spiritual inspirations or divine breezes.
538. al-majdhūbīn : The enraptured; those overwhelmed by divine attraction, often in a state of spiritual ecstasy.
539. shaṭaḥāt : Ecstatic utterances; paradoxical sayings of Sufis in states of spiritual intoxication.
540. ahl al-khuṣūṣiyya : People of speciality; the elite saints with a special rank near God.
541. al-ʿulūm al-ladunniyya : Divine sciences; knowledge directly inspired by God, not acquired through learning.
542. al-tahlīl : The phrase 'lā ilāha illā Allāh' (there is no god but God).
543. al-takbīr : The phrase 'Allāhu akbar' (God is greatest).
544. al-wuqūf ʿalā al-ḥudūd : Standing at the limits; observing the boundaries set by Islamic law.
545. al-umma al-muḥammadiyya : The Muhammadan community; the global Muslim community following Prophet Muhammad.
546. al-wilāya : Sainthood; spiritual authority and closeness to God.
547. al-suwar al-furqāniyya : Furqanic surahs; chapters of the Quran, al-Furqan being a name for the Quran.
548. al-alwāḥ al-ʿirfāniyya : Gnostic tablets; metaphysical tablets containing divine knowledge accessible to gnostics.
549. baḥr al-nubuwwa : Ocean of prophethood: a Sufi metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the all-encompassing source of prophetic knowledge.
550. al-maẓāhir al-ilāhiyya : Divine manifestations: theophanies or loci where divine attributes are reflected.
551. al-tanazzulāt : Descents: divine self-disclosures or emanations from higher to lower realms.
552. al-fawātiḥ wa al-khawātim : Openings and conclusions: the beginnings and ends of prophetic cycles or spiritual states.
553. ridāʾ al-ṣawn : Veil of protection: the divine concealment that guards hidden mysteries.
554. lawḥ ḥaḍratihi : Tablet of His presence: the archetypal tablet in the divine presence where all realities are inscribed.
555. bi al-ʿayn : With the eye: spiritual vision or direct witnessing of the divine.
556. al-durra al-bayḍāʾ : White pearl: a symbol of the primordial light or the Muhammadan reality.
557. maqām al-wirātha : Station of inheritance: the spiritual rank of inheriting prophetic knowledge.
558. ṭūr al-mukālama : Mount of Conversation: the place of divine speech, alluding to Moses' encounter with God.
559. ʿayn al-jamʿ : Eye of Gathering: the station of seeing all things as united in the divine.
560. ṣamadānī : Samadani: derived from al-Ṣamad (the Eternal), referring to a state of absolute dependence on God.
561. haymānī : Haymani: from haymān (bewildered love), a state of ecstatic bewilderment in divine love.
562. raghbūtī : Raghbuti: from raghba (desire), a state of intense longing for God.
563. rahbūtī : Rahbuti: from rahba (fear), a state of reverential awe.
564. malakūtī : Malakuti: pertaining to malakūt (the angelic realm).
565. raḥmūtī : Rahmuti: from raḥma (mercy), a state of divine mercy.
566. jabarūtī : Jabaruti: pertaining to jabarūt (the realm of divine power).
567. ʿaẓamūtī : 'Azamuti: from 'aẓama (majesty), a state of divine majesty.
568. al-bayt al-maʿmūr : The Frequented House: the celestial Kaaba in the seventh heaven, visited by angels.
569. budūr al-kamāl : Full moons of perfection: a metaphor for the perfect spiritual guides or saints who manifest divine attributes.
570. ahl al-jamāl : People of beauty: refers to the saints or beloved ones who embody divine beauty.
571. ʿabd riqq : Slave of servitude: a term for a devoted servant who has surrendered completely to God or the spiritual master.
572. dalāl : Endearment: a state of being cherished and pampered, often used in Sufi poetry to describe divine nurturing.
573. baṣāʾir : Inner sight: spiritual insight or vision, as opposed to physical sight.
574. ṣudūd : Aversion: the apparent turning away or withdrawal of the beloved (God or the spiritual guide) to test the lover.
575. wiṣāl : Union: spiritual union with the Divine or the beloved.
576. mawālī : Masters: plural of mawlā, meaning lord, protector, or master; here referring to the spiritual guides or saints.
577. wahm : Illusion: false imagination or delusion that veils the truth.
578. khayāl : Imagination: the mental faculty that forms images; in Sufism, it can be a veil or a means of spiritual perception.
579. suqāt : Cupbearers: those who serve the wine of divine love.
580. rāḥ : Wine: a metaphor for divine love or spiritual intoxication.
581. nudamā : Drinking companions: fellow seekers on the spiritual path who share the wine of divine love.
582. baḥr al-nubuwwa : Ocean of prophethood: a metaphor for the Prophet Muhammad as the vast source of prophetic knowledge and grace.
583. al-asmāʾ wa al-ḥurūf : The Names and the Letters: refers to the divine names and the mystical letters of the Arabic alphabet, often used in Sufi cosmology.
584. fawātiḥ al-suwar : Openings of the Surahs: the disconnected letters (ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt) at the beginning of some Quranic chapters.
585. al-sabʿ al-mathānī : The Seven Oft-Repeated: refers to Surah Al-Fatiha, which is recited repeatedly in prayers.
586. al-ḥawāmīm : Hawamim: the Quranic chapters that begin with the letters Ḥā Mīm (e.g., Surahs 40-46).
587. al-ṭawāsīn : Tawasin: the Quranic chapters that begin with the letters Ṭā Sīn (e.g., Surahs 27, 28, 36).
588. al-qāfāt : Qafat: the Quranic chapters that begin with the letter Qāf (e.g., Surah 50).
589. al-nūnāt : Nunat: the Quranic chapters that begin with the letter Nūn (e.g., Surah 68).
590. kutub al-waḥy : Books of Revelation: the scriptures revealed to prophets, including the Quran.
591. mawāqiʿ al-tanazzulāt : Places of Descents: the stations or moments of divine revelation.
592. ḥaḍarāt al-jalāl : Presences of Majesty: the divine attributes of majesty and awe.
593. al-ʿarsh : The Throne: the Throne of God, symbolizing His sovereignty.
594. maẓāhir al-jamāl : Manifestations of Beauty: the divine attributes of beauty and grace.
595. al-kursī : The Footstool: the Footstool of God, mentioned in the Quran (2:255).
596. fawq al-fawq : Above the above: the highest spiritual realms beyond ordinary comprehension.
597. sidrat al-muntahā : Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary: a celestial tree marking the boundary of creation, mentioned in the Quran (53:14).
598. al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ : Preserved Tablet: the heavenly tablet containing all divine decrees.
599. ṣarīr al-aqlām : Screeching of the pens: the sound of the pens writing destiny on the Preserved Tablet.
600. al-ṣafīḥ al-aʿlā : Supreme Scroll: a heavenly tablet or record.
601. al-malāʾika al-muhaymin : Dominating Angels: angels who oversee and dominate the spiritual realms.
602. al-khawāṣṣ al-mulhamūn : Inspired elite: spiritually advanced individuals who receive divine inspiration.
603. al-aqṭāb al-wāṣilūn : Connecting poles: the highest saints (aqṭāb) who are united with God.
604. al-ʿulamāʾ al-ʿāmilūn : Acting scholars: scholars who practice what they know.
605. al-fatḥ al-mubīn : Clear Victory: a Quranic term (48:1) referring to a decisive spiritual opening or conquest.
606. al-ʿizz wa al-tamkīn : Might and empowerment: spiritual strength and authority.
607. al-khiṭṭa al-muḥammadiyya : Muhammadan territory: the spiritual domain or influence of the Prophet Muhammad.
608. mishkāt : Niche: a small recess in a wall for a lamp, used in the Quran (24:35) as a metaphor for the heart.
609. Minā : Mina: a valley near Mecca, a site of pilgrimage rituals.
610. Yathrib : Yathrib: the old name of Medina, the city of the Prophet.
611. Aḥmad : Ahmad: another name of the Prophet Muhammad, meaning 'most praiseworthy'.
612. jāh : Rank: the spiritual station or intercessory power of the Prophet.
613. al-Mukhtār : The Chosen One: a title of the Prophet Muhammad.
614. qāba qawsayn : Two Bows' Length: a Quranic phrase (53:9) describing the Prophet's proximity to God during the Ascension.
615. shiʿār al-qurba : Emblem of closeness: a sign or symbol of nearness to God.
616. al-Ṣamad : The Self-Sufficient: a divine name meaning the Eternal, the Independent.
617. al-Wadūd : The Loving: a divine name indicating God's love for His creation.
618. al-Shakūr : The Appreciative: a divine name meaning the One who rewards gratitude abundantly.
619. al-Ḥamīd : The Praiseworthy: a divine name meaning the One who is praised.
620. al-Mājid : The Glorious: a divine name meaning the Majestic.
621. al-Laṭīf : The Subtle: a divine name meaning the Kind, the Knower of subtleties.
622. al-Khabīr : The All-Aware: a divine name meaning the One who knows all things.
623. al-Ḥaqq : The Truth: a divine name meaning the Real, the True.
624. al-Shāhid : The Witness: a divine name meaning the One who witnesses all things.
625. al-saniyy : Exalted, lofty; refers to the Prophet's elevated status.
626. al-Ahmadi : A reference to the Prophet Muhammad's name Ahmad, indicating his praiseworthy essence.
627. Salsabil : A spring in Paradise mentioned in the Quran (76:18); here used metaphorically for the Prophet's spiritual source.
628. al-Mustafawi : Derived from Mustafa, 'the Chosen One,' a title of the Prophet.
629. Sharia : Islamic law; here symbolizing the Prophet's guiding and distinguishing authority.
630. tayshu lubbī : Intoxication of the heart; a Sufi term for spiritual ecstasy.
631. al-bahr al-nabawī al-muhīt : The encompassing prophetic sea; a metaphor for the Prophet's all-encompassing spiritual reality.
632. Malakut : The angelic realm or dominion; a term in Islamic cosmology.
633. al-wilāya : Sainthood or spiritual authority; the state of being a friend of God (walī).
634. shamsi haqīqatihi : The sun of his reality; refers to the Prophet's essential truth (haqīqa muhammadiyya).
635. akābir al-ajrās al-kāmilīn : The great ones of the perfect bells; a Sufi term for advanced spiritual masters.
636. al-budala' : The substitutes (abdāl) are a rank of saints in Sufism who are believed to be the spiritual poles of the earth, often forty in number, who sustain the world through their hidden presence.
637. al-malamatiyya : The Malamatiyya are a Sufi group who practice self-blame and conceal their piety to avoid hypocrisy and spiritual pride.
638. al-afrad : The unique individuals (afrād) are a high rank of saints in Sufism, often solitary and distinguished by direct divine inspiration.
639. al-muhammadi : Muhammadan refers to the spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, from which all spiritual graces flow.
640. al-ajras : Bells (ajrās) is a Sufi term for certain spiritual beings or stations, possibly referring to those who 'ring' with divine remembrance.
641. al-awtad : Pegs (awtād) are a rank of saints in Sufism, often four in number, who are considered the spiritual pillars of the world.
642. al-ahmadi : Ahmadi refers to the Prophet Muhammad's name Ahmad, emphasizing his praiseworthy and luminous essence.
643. al-ilahiyyun : The divine ones (ilāhiyyūn) are saints who have attained direct knowledge of God and are immersed in divine attributes.
644. al-mustafawi : Mustafawi refers to the Prophet Muhammad's title al-Mustafa (the Chosen One), indicating his chosen spiritual reality.
645. rijal al-ghayb : Men of the unseen (rijāl al-ghayb) are hidden saints who are not known to the public but play a role in the spiritual governance of the world.
646. ahl al-anfas : People of breaths (ahl al-anfās) are Sufis who practice breath control in dhikr and have attained spiritual states through it.
647. al-karubiyyun : Cherubim (karūbiyyūn) are a high rank of angels in Islamic cosmology, often associated with nearness to God.
648. ahl al-uns wa al-idlal : People of intimacy and boldness (ahl al-uns wa al-idlāl) are saints who have a close, loving relationship with God, marked by familiarity and confidence.
649. rijal al-taht : Men of the lower (rijāl al-taht) is a Sufi term for saints who are hidden and occupy a lowly station, often serving others.
650. al-hawariyyun : Disciples (hawāriyyūn) refers to the pure and devoted followers of Jesus, but here used metaphorically for sincere disciples of the Prophet.
651. rijal al-fath : Men of opening (rijāl al-fatḥ) are saints who have attained spiritual opening (fatḥ) and divine illumination.
652. al-imaman : The two imams likely refer to the two highest spiritual authorities in the Sufi hierarchy, often identified with the Qutb (pole) and his deputy.
653. sahib al-waqt : Master of the time (ṣāḥib al-waqt) is a Sufi term for the spiritual pole (Qutb) who governs the spiritual affairs of his era.
654. makānatihi : His station or rank; a term denoting the spiritual status of the Prophet Muhammad.
655. al-gharīb : The stranger; a Sufi term for a person who is spiritually isolated or a saint who is unknown to the world.
656. ṣāḥib al-barzakh : Master of the barzakh; a term for a saint who mediates between the physical and spiritual worlds, or refers to the Prophet as the intermediary.
657. ahl al-khuṣūṣiyya : People of speciality; Sufi term for those who have attained a special closeness to God.
658. ahl al-taḥakkum : People of control; Sufi term for saints who have authority over spiritual matters.
659. rijāl al-mā' : Men of water; a Sufi term for saints associated with the element of water, symbolizing spiritual life.
660. al-ṣiddīqiyya al-ʿuẓmā : The supreme veracity; the highest level of truthfulness and spiritual realization, associated with the Prophet and the saints.
661. al-ṣā'imīn wa al-qā'imīn : The fasting ones and the standing ones; those who perform supererogatory fasts and night prayers.
662. al-awtād : The pegs; a Sufi term for the highest-ranking saints who are the spiritual pillars of the world.
663. ahl al-ʿināya : People of care; Sufi term for those who are under God's special care and guidance.
664. al-afrād : The individuals; a Sufi term for saints who are unique and independent in their spiritual station.
665. al-aʿrāf : The a'raf; a Sufi term for saints who are at the highest levels of spiritual realization, or the people of the heights mentioned in the Quran.
666. al-nujabā' : The nobles; a Sufi term for a category of saints who are generous and noble in character.
667. al-nuqabā' : The deputies; a Sufi term for saints who act as spiritual deputies or leaders.
668. al-akhyār : The righteous; a Sufi term for saints who are virtuous and chosen.
669. al-arbaʿīn : The forty; a reference to the forty saints who are the spiritual poles of the world, often associated with the heart of Noah.
670. al-kaʿba al-aḥmadiyya : The Ahmadine kaaba; a metaphorical term for the spiritual center of the Prophet Muhammad, around which the prophets and angels circumambulate.
671. al-baḥr al-muḥammadī al-aḥmadī : The Muhammadan-Ahmadi ocean: a Sufi term referring to the spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, considered the source of all divine knowledge and grace.
672. al-mawlawī : Mawlawi: pertaining to the spiritual master or guide (mawlā), often used in Sufi contexts to denote the effusion of the spiritual pole.
673. al-mulk wa al-malakūt : Mulk and malakut: the visible world of physical dominion and the invisible world of spiritual sovereignty, respectively.
674. al-awtād : Awtad (sing. watad): 'pegs' or 'pillars'; in Sufi hierarchy, the four or seven saints who sustain the spiritual order of the world.
675. al-aʿrāf : Aʿraf: 'heights' or 'elevated places'; in Sufism, saints of a high rank who are aware of both the elect and the common.
676. al-aqṭāb : Aqtab (sing. quṭb): 'poles' or 'axes'; the highest ranking saints in the Sufi spiritual hierarchy, considered the spiritual axis of their time.
677. qāba qawsayn aw adnā : Qaba qawsayn aw adna: 'two bow-lengths or nearer'; a Quranic phrase (53:9) describing the Prophet's proximity to God during the Mi'raj, used here to denote the highest spiritual station.
678. al-majādhīb : Majadhib (sing. majdhūb): 'attracted ones'; Sufis who are overwhelmed by divine attraction and often exhibit ecstatic states.
679. ahl al-takhrīb : Ahl al-takhrīb: 'people of destruction'; a Sufi term for those who destroy their lower selves and worldly attachments.
680. al-talwīn : Talwin: 'coloration' or 'variation'; a Sufi state of spiritual fluctuation between different divine attributes.
681. al-malāmatiyya : Malāmatiyya: 'people of blame'; a Sufi path that seeks to conceal piety and invite blame to avoid self-righteousness.
682. sirr kun : Sirr kun: 'the secret of Be'; the creative command of God (kun 'Be') by which things come into existence.
683. al-kawthar : Kawthar: 'abundance'; a river in Paradise, also a Quranic surah (108), symbolizing spiritual abundance.
684. al-ṣamadiyya : Samadiyya: 'the Eternal, the Self-Sufficient'; derived from God's name al-Ṣamad, indicating divine self-sufficiency.
685. al-iḥsāniyya : Ihsaniyya: 'perfection' or 'excellence'; related to the spiritual station of ihsan, worshiping God as if seeing Him.
686. Alif Lām Mīm. Dhālika al-kitāb : Quranic verse (2:1-2): 'Alif Lam Mim. That is the Book...'—the opening of Surah al-Baqarah.
687. Alif Lām Mīm. Allāhu lā ilāha illā huwa al-ḥayyu al-qayyūm : Quranic verse (3:1-2): 'Alif Lam Mim. Allah, there is no god but He, the Living, the Self-Subsisting.'
688. Alif Lām Mīm Ṣād : Quranic verse (7:1): 'Alif Lam Mim Sad'—the opening of Surah al-A'raf.
689. Alif Lām Rā. Tilka āyātu al-kitābi al-ḥakīm : Quranic verse (10:1): 'Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Wise Book.'
690. Ṭā Sīn : One of the disconnected letters (ḥurūf muqaṭṭa‘a) at the beginning of some Qur’anic chapters; in Sufi interpretation, they symbolize esoteric meanings.
691. Yā Sīn : Another set of disconnected letters; also the title of Sūrat Yā Sīn, considered the heart of the Qur’an.
692. Furqān : A name for the Qur’an meaning 'the Criterion' (between truth and falsehood).
693. Ṣād : A disconnected letter; also the name of Sūrat Ṣād.
694. Muṣṭafawī : Relating to al-Muṣṭafā, 'the Chosen One,' a title of the Prophet Muḥammad.
695. Qāf : A disconnected letter; also the name of Sūrat Qāf.
696. qibla : The direction of prayer (toward Mecca); used metaphorically for spiritual orientation.
697. Ka‘ba : The sacred house in Mecca; used metaphorically for the spiritual center.
698. Ḥā Mīm : Disconnected letters opening several Qur’anic chapters (Sūrat Ghāfir, etc.).
699. ‘Ayn Sīn Qāf : Disconnected letters from Sūrat al-Shūrā (42:2).
700. Aḥmadī : Relating to Aḥmad, another name of the Prophet Muḥammad.
701. Nūn : A disconnected letter; also the name of Sūrat al-Qalam (The Pen).
702. Mawlawī : Relating to the Mawlā (Lord); here referring to the divine presence.
703. Qāba Qawsayn : An Arabic phrase meaning 'two bow-lengths' or even closer, referring to the Prophet’s proximity to God during the Mi‘rāj (ascension), based on Qur’an 53:9.
704. poles (aqṭāb) : In Sufism, the highest spiritual authorities, often called 'poles' (quṭb, pl. aqṭāb).
705. Basmala : The phrase 'Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm' (In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Especially Merciful).
706. Opening of the Book (Fātiḥat al-Kitāb) : Sūrat al-Fātiḥa, the first chapter of the Qur’an.
707. fixed entities (a‘yān thābita) : In Ibn ‘Arabī’s Sufi metaphysics, the immutable archetypes or essences of all things in God’s knowledge.
708. al-‘Uqūd : Refers to Sūrat al-Mā’ida (The Table), which is also known as Sūrat al-‘Uqūd (The Contracts) due to its many verses about covenants.
709. pole (quṭb) : The highest spiritual rank in the Sufi hierarchy.
710. divine (ladunnī) : Knowledge or sciences that come directly from God, without intermediary.
711. Kingdom (malakūt) : The spiritual or angelic realm in Islamic cosmology.
712. Mercy (raḥamūt) : A term for the divine attribute of mercy, often used in Sufi contexts.
713. al-Yaqṭīn : A reference to Sūrat al-Ṣāffāt (37:146), where a gourd plant (yaqṭīn) is mentioned; here used poetically.
714. Station of Praise (Maqām al-Ḥamd) : A praiseworthy station granted to the Prophet Muḥammad on the Day of Resurrection.
715. Ḥamīm al-Sajda : Another name for Sūrat Fuṣṣilat (41), which begins with Ḥā Mīm and contains a verse about prostration.
716. al-Qitāl : Refers to Sūrat Muḥammad (47), which is also known as Sūrat al-Qitāl (The Fighting).
717. al-Muzīl : The Remover: a divine attribute referring to God who removes distress and harm.
718. al-Awtād : The Pegs: a term in Sufism referring to the highest-ranking saints who are the spiritual pillars of the world.
719. al-Ajrās : The Bells: a metaphorical term for spiritual guides or saints who call people to God.
720. al-Mu'awwidhatayn : The two Surahs of refuge: Surah Al-Falaq (113) and Surah An-Nas (114).
721. Qul a'ūdhu bi-Rabb al-Falaq : Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Daybreak: the opening verse of Surah Al-Falaq.
722. al-Waswās al-Khannās : The whispering insinuator: refers to Satan who whispers evil and then withdraws.
723. Fātiḥah : Opening: refers to Surah Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran.
724. Mā'idah : Table: refers to Surah Al-Ma'idah (The Table Spread).
725. al-An'ām : The Cattle: refers to Surah Al-An'am (The Cattle).
726. A'rāf : The Recognitions: refers to Surah Al-A'raf (The Heights).
727. Anfāl : The Spoils: refers to Surah Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War).
728. Ẓulumāt : Darknesses: refers to the darkness of the sea and night in the story of Jonah.
729. al-Ḥajar : The Stone: refers to the Black Stone in the Kaaba.
730. Kahf : Cave: refers to Surah Al-Kahf (The Cave).
731. Ibn Maryam : Son of Mary: Jesus, peace be upon him.
732. Ṭā-Hā : Ta-Ha: a title of the Prophet Muhammad, also the name of Surah Ta-Ha.
733. Furqān : Criterion: refers to the Quran, also Surah Al-Furqan.
734. al-Qaṣaṣ : The Story: refers to Surah Al-Qasas (The Story).
735. al-'Ankabūt : The Spider: refers to Surah Al-Ankabut (The Spider).
736. al-Rūm : Rome: refers to Surah Ar-Rum (The Romans).
737. Luqmān : Luqman: a wise man mentioned in the Quran, also Surah Luqman.
738. Sajdah : Prostration: refers to Surah As-Sajdah (The Prostration).
739. al-Aḥzāb : The Confederates: refers to Surah Al-Ahzab (The Confederates).
740. Fāṭir : Originator: refers to Surah Fatir (The Originator).
741. Yā Sīn : Ya-Sin: a title of the Prophet Muhammad, also Surah Ya-Sin.
742. Ṣād : Sad: a letter of the Arabic alphabet, also Surah Sad.
743. Ghāfir : Forgiver: refers to Surah Ghafir (The Forgiver).
744. Tafṣīl : Detailing: refers to Surah Fussilat (Explained in Detail).
745. Shūrā : Counsel: refers to Surah Ash-Shura (The Consultation).
746. al-Dukhān : Smoke: refers to Surah Ad-Dukhan (The Smoke).
747. Sharī'ah : Law: the divine law revealed to Prophet Muhammad.
748. al-Aḥqāf : The Sand Dunes: refers to Surah Al-Ahqaf (The Sand Dunes).
749. al-Fatḥ : Victory: refers to Surah Al-Fath (The Victory).
750. al-Ḥujurāt : The Chambers: refers to Surah Al-Hujurat (The Private Apartments).
751. Qāf : Qaf: a letter of the Arabic alphabet, also Surah Qaf.
752. al-Dhāriyāt : The Scatterers: refers to Surah Adh-Dhariyat (The Scatterers).
753. al-Ṭūr : The Mount: refers to Surah At-Tur (The Mount).
754. al-Isrā' : The Night Journey: refers to the Isra' and Mi'raj, also Surah Al-Isra'.
755. al-Wāqi'ah : The Event: refers to Surah Al-Waqi'ah (The Event).
756. al-Mujādalah : The Disputation: refers to Surah Al-Mujadilah (The Disputation).
757. al-Ḥashr : The Gathering: refers to Surah Al-Hashr (The Gathering).
758. Nūn : Nun: a letter of the Arabic alphabet, also Surah Al-Qalam (The Pen) which begins with Nun.
759. al-Muzzammil : The Enwrapped: refers to Surah Al-Muzzammil (The Enwrapped).
760. al-Muddaththir : The Enshrouded: refers to Surah Al-Muddaththir (The Enshrouded).
761. al-Mursalāt : The Sent Forth: refers to Surah Al-Mursalat (The Sent Forth).
762. al-Nāzi'āt : The Pluckers: refers to Surah An-Nazi'at (Those Who Pull Out).
763. Kawwirat : Folded up: refers to Surah At-Takwir (The Folding Up).
764. Infaṭarat : Split: refers to Surah Al-Infitar (The Splitting).
765. al-Ṭāriq : The Night-Visitor: refers to Surah At-Tariq (The Night-Visitor).
766. Inshiqāq : Splitting: refers to Surah Al-Inshiqaq (The Splitting).
767. al-Burūj : The Constellations: refers to Surah Al-Buruj (The Constellations).
768. al-Ḥawḍ : The Basin: the celestial basin of the Prophet Muhammad on the Day of Judgment.
769. al-Fajr : The Dawn: refers to Surah Al-Fajr (The Dawn).
770. al-Balad al-Maḥrūs : The Guarded City: refers to Mecca.
771. Nashraḥ : Expand: refers to Surah Ash-Sharh (The Expansion).
772. al-Layl : The Night: refers to Surah Al-Layl (The Night).
773. al-Ḍuḥā : The Forenoon: refers to Surah Ad-Duha (The Forenoon).
774. Iqra' : Read: refers to Surah Al-Alaq (The Clot), which begins with 'Read'.
775. al-Tīn : The Fig: refers to Surah At-Tin (The Fig).
776. Laylat al-Qadr : The Night of Decree: refers to Surah Al-Qadr (The Night of Decree).
777. al-Qāri'ah : The Calamity: refers to Surah Al-Qari'ah (The Calamity).
778. al-Zalzalah : The Earthquake: refers to Surah Az-Zalzalah (The Earthquake).
779. al-'Ādiyāt : The Chargers: refers to Surah Al-Adiyat (The Chargers).
780. al-Takāthur : Abundance: refers to Surah At-Takathur (The Abundance).
781. Quraysh : Quraysh: refers to Surah Quraysh.
782. al-Rūḥ : The Spirit: refers to the angel Gabriel or Surah Al-Qadr.
783. al-Kawthar : The River: refers to Surah Al-Kawthar (The Abundance).
784. Tabbat yadā : May the hands be cut off: refers to Surah Al-Masad (The Palm Fiber).
785. al-Ṣubḥ : The Dawn: refers to Surah Al-Falaq (The Daybreak).
786. al-Ikhlāṣ : Sincerity: refers to Surah Al-Ikhlas (Sincerity).
787. Falaq : Dawn: refers to Surah Al-Falaq (The Daybreak).
788. al-Fārūq : The Discerner: title of Umar ibn al-Khattab.
789. Ubayda : Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah: a companion of the Prophet.
790. Ibn 'Awf : Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf: a companion.
791. Sa'd : Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas: a companion.
792. Sa'īd : Sa'id ibn Zayd: a companion.
793. Zubayr : Zubayr ibn al-Awwam: a companion.
794. Ṭalḥa : Talha ibn Ubaydullah: a companion.
795. Ja'far : Ja'far ibn Abi Talib: a companion.
796. 'Aqīl : Aqil ibn Abi Talib: a companion.
797. Ḥamza : Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib: the Prophet's uncle.
798. 'Abbās : Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib: the Prophet's uncle.
799. Khadīja : Khadija bint Khuwaylid: the Prophet's first wife.
800. al-Zahrā' : Fatima al-Zahra: the Prophet's daughter.
801. al-'Ulūm al-Ladunniyya : Divine sciences: esoteric knowledge granted directly by God to saints.
802. Furqāniyya : Furqanic: relating to the Quran as the Criterion (Al-Furqan).
803. ladunni : Divinely inspired knowledge granted directly by God without intermediary means.
804. jabarut : The realm of divine power and might, one of the spiritual worlds in Sufi cosmology.
805. subbuhi : Attributed to the divine attribute of transcendence and glorification (Subbuh).
806. tasnim : A spring in Paradise mentioned in the Quran (83:27), symbolizing the highest spiritual drink.
807. ahmadi : Relating to Ahmad, one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, indicating his praiseworthy qualities.
808. muhammadi : Relating to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam.
809. qayyumiyya : The attribute of self-subsistence and sustaining all existence, derived from al-Qayyum (the Self-Subsisting).
810. rahmutiyya : Relating to divine mercy (rahma), often used in Sufi contexts for mercy-bestowing gifts.
811. rahmani : Relating to al-Rahman (the Most Merciful), one of God's names.
812. samadi : Relating to al-Samad (the Eternal, the Self-Sufficient), indicating actions directed solely to God.
813. fardani : Relating to uniqueness and singularity, often used for spiritual states of divine solitude.
814. mustafawi : Relating to al-Mustafa (the Chosen One), a title of Prophet Muhammad.
815. ihsani : Relating to ihsan (excellence in worship), the highest level of faith.
816. Haydara : A nickname of Imam Ali, meaning 'lion'.
817. bahr al-risāla : Literally 'sea of the message'; a metaphorical expression for the Prophet Muhammad as the vast ocean of divine communication and knowledge.
818. futūḥāt : Spiritual openings or illuminations granted by God to the saints and prophets.
819. tafrīd : A Sufi term meaning 'singling out' or 'isolation' in devotion to God alone.
820. tajrīd : A Sufi term meaning 'abstraction' or 'detachment' from worldly concerns to focus on God.
821. quṭb al-wilāya : The 'pole of sainthood'; a high-ranking saint in the Sufi hierarchy who is the spiritual axis of his time.
822. Furqānī : Relating to the Furqan, a name for the Quran meaning 'the Criterion' (between truth and falsehood).
823. ʿāʾid : Returning; here, the poet returns all his sorrows to God, seeking His help.
824. ḥaḍarāt : Divine presences; spiritual stations or levels of divine manifestation.
825. Qāb Qawsayn : The distance of two bows; a Qur'anic reference (53:9) indicating the Prophet's proximity to God during the Miʿrāj.
826. ḥikam ladunniyya : Divine wisdoms; knowledge granted directly by God without intermediary.
827. adhkār qudsiyya : Holy remembrances; formulas of dhikr that are sacred and divinely inspired.
828. raḥmāniyya : Mercy; specifically, the all-encompassing mercy of God (ar-Raḥmān).
829. dasāʾis al-dasāʾis : The hidden secrets; the innermost layers of secrets known only to God.
830. al-rūḥ : The Spirit; often interpreted as the Archangel Gabriel or a special angel.
831. al-ʿarsh : The Throne; the greatest of God's creations, encompassing the universe.
832. al-kursī : The Footstool; a lesser throne, often identified with God's sovereignty.
833. al-qalam : The Pen; the first created thing, used to write destinies.
834. al-lawḥ : The Tablet; the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ) containing all decrees.
835. ʿIlliyyīn : The highest station in Paradise; the abode of the righteous.
836. majdhūbīn : Attracted ones; those drawn to God by divine attraction, often in a state of spiritual ecstasy.
837. Al-Ghaffār : The Oft-Forgiving; one of the 99 Names of God, emphasizing repeated forgiveness.
838. Al-Ghafūr : The All-Forgiving; another Name of God, indicating vast and comprehensive forgiveness.
839. Al-Qahhār : The Subduer; the One who dominates and overcomes all.
840. Al-Wahhāb : The Bestower; the One who gives generously without return.
841. Al-Karīm : The Generous; the One of immense nobility and bounty.
842. Al-Jawād : The Munificent; the One who gives abundantly and freely.
843. Ar-Razzāq : The Provider; the One who sustains all creation.
844. Al-Fātih : The Opener; the One who opens doors of mercy and provision.
845. Al-'Alīm : The All-Knowing; the One whose knowledge encompasses everything.
846. Al-Khāfid : The Abaser; the One who lowers and humbles.
847. Ar-Rāfi' : The Exalter; the One who raises in rank and honor.
848. Al-Mu'izz : The Honorer; the One who bestows dignity and strength.
849. Al-Mudhill : The Humiliator; the One who abases and disgraces.
850. As-Samī' : The All-Hearing; the One who hears all things.
851. Al-Basīr : The All-Seeing; the One who sees all things.
852. Al-Hakam : The Judge; the One who decides and decrees with perfect wisdom.
853. Al-'Adl : The Just; the One who is absolutely fair and equitable.
854. Al-Latīf : The Subtle; the One who is kind and gentle, and whose actions are imperceptible.
855. Al-Khabīr : The All-Aware; the One who knows the innermost realities.
856. Al-Halīm : The Forbearing; the One who is slow to punish.
857. Al-'Alīy : The Most High; the One of supreme exaltation.
858. Al-'Afuww : The Pardoner; the One who erases sins and overlooks faults.
859. Ash-Shakūr : The Appreciative; the One who rewards gratitude abundantly.
860. Al-Kabīr : The Great; the One of infinite greatness and majesty.
861. Al-Hafīz : The Preserver; the One who protects and guards.
862. Al-Muqīt : The Nourisher; the One who provides sustenance and preserves.
863. al-ʿārifīn : Knowers of God; those who have attained direct experiential knowledge (maʿrifa) of the Divine.
864. al-muḥibbīn : Lovers of God; those who are passionately devoted to the Divine.
865. al-mushtāqīn : Yearners; those who long intensely for union with God.
866. dakkan : Crushed or leveled; a Qur'anic term (Q 19:98) describing mountains reduced to dust, here used metaphorically for the annihilation of the self in awe.
867. al-awwalīn wa al-ākhirīn : The first and the last; all of humanity from the beginning to the end of time.
868. al-rūḥ : The Spirit; often interpreted as the Archangel Gabriel or a special angelic being.
869. zakāh : Obligatory alms-giving; one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
870. walī : Saint or friend of God; a person who has attained closeness to God through piety and spiritual realization.
871. aqṭāb : Poles; the highest-ranking saints in the Sufi hierarchy who serve as spiritual pivots for the world.
872. awtād : Pegs; a rank of saints who are considered spiritual supports of the earth, often four in number.
873. al-malakūt : The kingdom of heaven; the invisible, spiritual realm of divine sovereignty.
874. al-wajd : Ecstasy or intense spiritual emotion experienced in the presence of the Divine.
875. al-tawājud : Simulated or induced ecstasy, often a preliminary stage to genuine ecstasy in Sufi practice.
876. al-Mājid : The Glorious; one of the divine names, indicating the One who is inherently glorious and majestic.
877. al-Wāḥid : The One; a divine name emphasizing the absolute oneness of God.
878. tawḥīd : The declaration of God's oneness; the central tenet of Islam.
879. al-Aḥad : The Unique; a divine name indicating God's absolute uniqueness and indivisibility.
880. al-Ṣamad : The Eternal Refuge; a divine name meaning the one to whom all turn in need, who is self-sufficient.
881. al-Qādir : The Powerful; a divine name indicating God's absolute power.
882. al-Muqtadir : The Prevailing; a divine name emphasizing God's supreme power over all.
883. al-Mu'akhkhir : The Delayer; a divine name referring to God's power to delay or postpone as He wills.
884. al-Awwal : The First; a divine name indicating God's priority and pre-existence.
885. al-Ākhir : The Last; a divine name indicating God's eternity and finality.
886. Qur'an 55:26-27 : Qur'anic verse emphasizing the eternal nature of God's face.
887. al-Ẓāhir : The Manifest; a divine name indicating God's manifestation in creation.
888. tajalliyāt : Theophanies; manifestations of divine attributes in the world.
889. talqiyāt : Divine receptions or teachings imparted directly to the heart.
890. al-Bāṭin : The Hidden; a divine name indicating God's transcendence and hiddenness.
891. al-aqṭāb : Poles; the highest spiritual authorities in Sufi hierarchy.
892. al-afrād : Solitary ones; advanced saints who have reached a unique station of closeness to God.
893. subbūḥ : Most Holy; a term glorifying God's transcendence.
894. quddūs : All Holy; a divine name emphasizing God's absolute purity.
895. al-rūḥ : The Spirit; often referring to the Archangel Gabriel or a higher spiritual reality.
896. al-Barr : The Benign; a divine name indicating God's kindness and benevolence.
897. al-Tawwāb : The Oft-Returning; a divine name indicating God's acceptance of repentance.
898. al-Muntaqim : The Avenger; a divine name indicating God's justice in punishing wrongdoing.
899. imāma : Leadership or imamate; here used metaphorically for divine authority.
900. al-'Afuww : The Pardoner; a divine name indicating God's forgiveness.
901. al-ḥafaza : The recording angels who record deeds.
902. al-Ra'ūf : The Kind; a divine name indicating God's compassion.
903. Mālik al-Mulk : The Owner of Sovereignty; a divine name indicating God's absolute ownership.
904. Dhū al-Jalāl wa al-Ikrām : The Possessor of Majesty and Honor; a divine attribute.
905. al-Muqsiṭ : The Equitable; a divine name indicating God's justice.
906. Qur'an 15:21 : Qur'anic verse indicating that everything is sent down in a known measure.
907. al-Jāmi' : The Gatherer; a divine name indicating God's power to gather.
908. jam' al-jam' : The gathering of gathering; a Sufi term for the highest state of unification.
909. al-sharī'a : The divine law; the exoteric aspect of Islam.
910. al-ḥaqīqa : The Truth; the esoteric reality underlying the law.
911. al-Ghanī : The Self-Sufficient; a divine name indicating God's independence.
912. al-akwāb : Cups; a metaphor for spiritual gifts or stations.
913. al-Mu'ṭī al-Māni' : The Giver, the Withholder; a divine name indicating God's absolute discretion in giving and withholding.
914. al-Ḍārr : The Harmer; a divine name indicating God's power to cause harm as a test or punishment.
915. al-Nāfi' : The Benefiter; a divine name indicating God's power to bestow benefit.
916. al-Nūr : The Light; a divine name indicating God's illuminating guidance.
917. al-karūbiyyūn : Cherubim; a class of angels in Islamic cosmology.
918. al-muhayminūn : The dominators; a class of angels or spiritual beings.
919. al-Hādī : The Guide; a divine name indicating God's guidance.
920. al-Badī' : The Incomparable Originator; a divine name indicating God's creative power.
921. al-uns wa al-idlāl : Intimacy and boldness; spiritual states of closeness to God.
922. aḥwāl : States; spiritual states experienced by the seeker.
923. al-Bāqī : The Everlasting; a divine name indicating God's eternal existence.
924. al-wārith : The Inheritor, one of God's names, meaning He who inherits all creation after its passing.
925. al-ghayba wa al-fanā' : Spiritual states: 'absence' from creation and 'annihilation' in God.
926. Qur'an 39:74 : Verse from Surah Az-Zumar.
927. al-‘ulūm al-ladunniyya : Divinely inspired knowledge, directly from God.
928. ṣamadāniyyāt : Attributes pertaining to al-Ṣamad, 'the Self-Sufficient,' indicating absolute independence and self-subsistence.
929. aḥadiyya : Oneness in the sense of absolute unity, a key concept in Sufi metaphysics referring to the undifferentiated divine essence.
930. ṣamadiyya : The quality of being Self-Sufficient; derived from al-Ṣamad, one of the divine names.
931. al-waḥy al-fardānī : Singular revelation; a term for the unique, direct revelation given to the Prophet Muhammad.
932. ḥaḍrat al-rubūbiyya : The presence of Lordship; a spiritual station associated with God's attribute as Lord (Rabb).
933. ḥaḍrat al-raḥamūtiyya : The presence of Mercy; a spiritual station associated with God's attribute as Merciful (Raḥmān).
934. al-dhāt al-aḥmadiyya : The Ahmadic essence; referring to the primordial reality of the Prophet Muhammad, named Ahmad.
935. al-iksīr al-muḥammadī : The Muhammadan elixir; a metaphor for the transformative spiritual power of the Prophet.
936. al-janāb al-muṣṭafawī : The Mustafawic presence; derived from al-Muṣṭafā, 'the Chosen One,' a title of the Prophet.
937. subbūḥiyya : Transcendence; derived from subbūḥ, a divine attribute indicating absolute purity and transcendence.
938. quddūsiyya : Holiness; derived from quddūs, 'the Holy,' indicating absolute sanctity.
939. adab : Spiritual etiquette; proper conduct in the presence of God.
940. al-ḥaqīqa al-muḥammadiyya : The Muhammadan Reality; the primordial spiritual reality of the Prophet Muhammad, considered the first creation and the source of all existence.
941. ʿayn al-ʿayn : A Sufi term indicating the innermost essence or core of something, often used to denote the most subtle aspect of divine reality.
942. walī : A saint or friend of God, one who is under divine protection and possesses spiritual authority.
943. khuluq ʿaẓīm : Reference to Quran 68:4, describing the Prophet Muhammad's sublime character.
944. najī : One who is taken into intimate confidence; a close confidant, often used for prophets.
945. kalīm : One who speaks with God; traditionally used for Prophet Moses, but here applied to Muhammad as one who converses with the Divine.
946. al-ism al-aʿẓam : The Greatest Name of God, believed to possess immense power when invoked.
947. jāh : Rank, status, or prestige, especially the spiritual station of the Prophet that allows intercession.
948. al-Jar‘a' : A place name in the Hijaz, often mentioned in classical Arabic poetry.
949. Names : Refers to the Divine Names or specific sacred names being invoked.
950. Fardanic : From 'fardaniyya', meaning uniqueness or singularity, often used in Sufi cosmology to denote a level of divine manifestation.
951. refreshments : Translating 'tarawwuhāt', which can mean spiritual refreshments or breaths of relief.
952. malakutic : From 'malakūt', the angelic or spiritual realm.
953. Rahamuti : From 'rahamūt', a Sufi term for the realm of divine mercy.
954. Jabruti : From 'jabarūt', the realm of divine power or omnipotence.
955. Samadani : From 'samadāniyya', relating to the attribute of being Eternal and Self-Sufficient (al-Ṣamad).
956. Furqanic : From 'furqān', meaning the Criterion (a name for the Quran).
957. Call upon Me, I will answer you : Quran 40:60.
958. tawhid : The oneness of God; Islamic monotheism.
959. tafrid : A Sufi term meaning isolation or singling out for God.
960. jam‘ : A Sufi term for the state of union or gathering with God.
961. Ahmadan : Relating to Ahmad, another name of the Prophet Muhammad.
962. al-uns wa al-idlāl : Terms denoting intimate familiarity and boldness in the context of the lover-beloved relationship with God.
963. Dhī al-‘Izzah wa al-Jalāl : One of God's attributes: Possessor of Might and Majesty.
964. al-‘ulūm al-ladunniyyah : Divinely inspired knowledge granted directly by God without intermediary.
965. al-yaqīn : Certainty; in Sufism, the highest level of faith and knowledge.
966. al-ṣiddīqīn : The veracious; those who have attained the highest degree of truthfulness and confirmation of divine truths.
967. al-muqarrabīn : The brought near; those who are close to God, often referring to the highest ranks of saints.
968. al-Kursī : The Footstool; a divine creation mentioned in the Quran (2:255), often interpreted as a symbol of God's sovereignty.
969. al-‘Arsh : The Throne; the greatest of God's creations, symbolizing His dominion and authority.
970. mushabbih : One who anthropomorphizes God, likening Him to created beings.
971. mu‘aṭṭil : One who negates God's attributes, denying His names and qualities.
972. Qul Huwa Allāhu Aḥad : The opening verse of Surah al-Ikhlas (112:1), affirming God's oneness and transcendence.
973. al-muḥṣī lahunna bi-ḥusnāhā : Reference to a hadith: 'God has ninety-nine names; whoever enumerates them enters Paradise.'
974. Yā Huwa : A divine invocation meaning 'O He,' emphasizing God's absolute essence.
975. Mu’min : One of God's names meaning 'the Faithful' or 'the Giver of security.'
976. al-Lāt wa al-‘Uzzā : Names of pre-Islamic Arabian goddesses mentioned in the Quran (53:19-20).
977. Majid : The Glorious, one of the names of Allah.
978. Ba'ith : The Resurrector, who raises the dead.
979. Shahid : The Witness, who is present and aware of all things.
980. Haqq : The Truth, the Real.
981. Wakil : The Trustee, the Disposer of affairs.
982. al-Qawiyy : The Strong.
983. al-Matin : The Firm, the Steadfast.
984. al-Waliyy : The Protecting Friend, the Ally.
985. Hamid : The Praiseworthy.
986. Fa''al : The Doer, the Effecter of what He wills.
987. Muhsi : The Reckoner, who counts all things.
988. Mubdi' : The Originator, who begins creation.
989. Mu'id : The Restorer, who brings back creation after annihilation.
990. al-Muhyi : The Giver of life.
991. al-Mumit : The Bringer of death.
992. al-Hayy : The Ever-Living.
993. al-Qayyum : The Self-Subsisting, the Sustainer of all.
994. al-Wajid : The Finder, the Perceiver, the Rich.
995. al-Tawl : The Bounty, the Abundance.
996. al-Majid : The Glorious.
997. al-Wahid : The One, the Unique.
998. Allah : The proper name of God in Islam.
999. al-Samad : The Eternal, the Self-Sufficient, the Besought of all.
1000. al-A'la : The Most High.
1001. Qadir : The Powerful, the Able.
1002. Muqtadir : The All-Powerful, the Omnipotent.
1003. Muqaddim : The Advancer, who brings forward.
1004. Mu'akhkhir : The Delayer, who puts back.
1005. al-Awwal : The First, without beginning.
1006. al-Akhir : The Last, without end.
1007. al-Baqi : The Everlasting, the Permanent.
1008. Wali : The Protecting Friend, the Governor.
1009. al-Muta'ali : The Most Exalted, the Supreme.
1010. al-Barr : The Source of Goodness, the Kind.
1011. al-Tawwab : The Acceptor of Repentance, the Oft-Returning.
1012. Muntaqim : The Avenger, who punishes wrongdoers.
1013. 'Afuww : The Pardoner, the Effacer of sins.
1014. Ra'uf : The Compassionate, the Kind.
1015. Malik al-Mulk : The Owner of all Sovereignty.
1016. Dhu al-Jalal wa al-Ikram : The Lord of Majesty and Bounty.
1017. Muqsit : The Equitable, the Just.
1018. Jami' : The Gatherer, who assembles all things.
1019. Ghaniyy : The Self-Sufficient, the Rich.
1020. Mughni : The Enricher, who bestows wealth.
1021. al-Mani' : The Withholder, the Preventer.
1022. al-Darr : The Distresser, who creates harm.
1023. al-Nafi' : The Benefiter, who creates good.
1024. al-Nur : The Light.
1025. al-Hadi : The Guide.
1026. al-Badi' : The Incomparable, the Originator of wonders.
1027. Baqi : The Everlasting.
1028. Warith : The Inheritor, who remains after all creation perishes.
1029. Rashid : The Rightly Guided, the Guide to right conduct.
1030. Sabur : The Patient, the Forbearing.
1031. Most Beautiful Names : Al-Asma' al-Husna, the 99 names of Allah.
1032. Sea of the Message : A metaphorical description of the Prophet Muhammad as an ocean of divine knowledge.
1033. Tawhid : The Oneness of God, Islamic monotheism.
1034. Furqan : The Criterion, a name for the Quran that distinguishes truth from falsehood.
1035. tawhid : The Islamic concept of the oneness and uniqueness of God.
1036. brides of the gardens : A metaphorical reference to the companions of the Prophet, likened to brides in the gardens of Paradise.
1037. trial of the questioning : The questioning in the grave by the angels Munkar and Nakir.
1038. tahlil : The utterance of 'La ilaha illa Allah' (There is no god but Allah).
1039. takbir : The utterance of 'Allahu Akbar' (Allah is the Greatest).
1040. tahmid : The utterance of 'Alhamdulillah' (Praise be to Allah).
1041. divine presences : The spiritual stations or levels of divine manifestation.
1042. tafrid : The state of considering God as absolutely unique and solitary.
1043. tabattul : Complete detachment from worldly concerns and devotion to God.
1044. inqita' : Cutting off from all created things to focus solely on God.
1045. tajrid : Stripping away all material and spiritual attachments to attain pure divine unity.
1046. qutb : The spiritual pole or axis, the highest-ranking saint in the Sufi hierarchy.
1047. sahwu : Spiritual sobriety or wakefulness after the state of intoxication.
1048. mahwu : Spiritual obliteration or effacement of the self.
1049. fana' : Annihilation of the ego in the divine presence.
1050. boldness : Spiritual intimacy and confidence in approaching God.
1051. Taybah : Another name for Medina, the city of the Prophet Muhammad.
1052. bull : Possibly a reference to a specific person or a symbolic figure; context unclear.
1053. Kursi : The Footstool of God, often interpreted as His throne of authority.
1054. tawhid : The Islamic concept of the oneness and uniqueness of God (Allah).
1055. Qur'an 9:128 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1056. Qur'an 9:129 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1057. Qur'an 27:25-26 : Quranic verses cited in the text.
1058. Qur'an 59:22-24 : Quranic verses cited in the text.
1059. Qur'an 7:158 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1060. Qur'an 98:5 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1061. Qur'an 16:2 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1062. shaykh : A spiritual guide or teacher in Sufism.
1063. murid : A disciple or seeker in Sufism.
1064. Qur'an 21:25 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1065. Qur'an 28:88 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1066. Qur'an 35:3 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1067. Qur'an 39:6 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1068. Qur'an 64:12-13 : Quranic verses cited in the text.
1069. Qur'an 28:70 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1070. Qur'an 40:62 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1071. Qur'an 6:106 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1072. Qur'an 44:7-8 : Quranic verses cited in the text.
1073. man of the fish : Refers to the prophet Jonah (Yunus), who was swallowed by a whale.
1074. Qur'an 21:87 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1075. Qur'an 40:65 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1076. Qur'an 20:8 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1077. tajwid : The rules governing the pronunciation of the Quran during recitation.
1078. Qur'an 20:98 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1079. Qur'an 2:163 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1080. Qur'an 13:30 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1081. openings of surahs : The initial letters (muqatta'at) that appear at the beginning of some Quranic chapters.
1082. Qur'an 40:3 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1083. Qur'an 47:19 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1084. Qur'an 4:87 : Quranic verse cited in the text.
1085. hawātif : Unseen voices or spiritual beings that announce news, often associated with divine inspiration or premonitions.
1086. baḥr al-tawḥīd : Ocean of divine oneness; a Sufi term referring to the profound spiritual reality of God's unity.
1087. al-tashyīd : Fortified structure; here metaphorically refers to the Prophet's elevated status and the strong foundation of his mission.
1088. tahlīlāt : Declarations of God's oneness, specifically the phrase 'Lā ilāha illā Allāh' (There is no god but Allah).
1089. kalimatay al-shahāda : The two testimonies of faith: 'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.'
1090. sayyid al-kawnayn : Master of the two worlds; a title for the Prophet Muhammad, referring to this world and the Hereafter.
1091. al-ʿulūm al-ladunniyya : Divine sciences or knowledge granted directly by God, often associated with mystical insight.
1092. al-sharīʿa al-furqāniyya : The Furqanic law; refers to the Islamic law based on the Quran (al-Furqān).
1093. al-mawlawiyya : Masterly; here likely refers to the spiritual path of the masters (awlīyā').
1094. al-ḥaqīqa al-ʿirfāniyya : Gnostic truth; the inner, esoteric reality known through spiritual knowledge (maʿrifa).
1095. al-raḥma al-raḥmāniyya : All-encompassing mercy; a divine attribute of mercy that encompasses all creation.
1096. arbāb al-futūḥāt : Masters of spiritual openings; Sufi saints who have received divine unveilings and illuminations.
1097. al-maqāmāt al-iḥsāniyya : Stations of excellence; spiritual stages in the Sufi path related to the state of iḥsān (spiritual excellence).
1098. al-anwār al-dhātiyya : Essential lights; the primordial lights of the divine Essence, often associated with the Prophet's light.
1099. Aḥmadiyya : Referring to the Prophet Muhammad's essence or station as Ahmad, a name meaning 'most praiseworthy'.
1100. tawḥīd : The oneness of God; the central Islamic doctrine of monotheism.
1101. aqṭāb : Poles; the highest-ranking saints in the Sufi hierarchy.
1102. awtād : Pegs; a rank of saints who are considered spiritual supports of the world.
1103. afrād : Solitary ones; a rank of saints who are unique and independent.
1104. abdāl : Substitutes; a rank of saints who replace one another.
1105. sarrāt : Hidden ones; a term for saints who are concealed.
1106. tafrīd : Singling out God; a state of focusing solely on God's oneness.
1107. tajrīd : Stripping away; detachment from all except God.
1108. fanā' : Annihilation of the ego in God.
1109. baqā' : Subsistence in God after annihilation.
1110. ṣaḥw : Sobriety; a state of spiritual awareness after intoxication.
1111. maḥw : Effacement; the obliteration of the self.
1112. ḥayra : Bewilderment; a state of awe and confusion in the presence of God.
1113. walahu : Passionate love and longing for God.
1114. al-ghayb : The unseen; the realm of the divine mysteries.
1115. al-rusul : The messengers; prophets sent by God.
1116. اللَّدُنِّيَّة : Divine sciences (al-ʿulūm al-ladunniyya) are knowledge directly bestowed by God without intermediary, often associated with mystical gnosis.
1117. الْأَحْمَدِيَّ : Ahmadine: referring to the Prophet Muhammad's name Ahmad, meaning 'most praiseworthy', emphasizing his spiritual aspect.
1118. الْمُصْطَفَوِيَّ : Chosen (al-Muṣṭafawī): derived from al-Muṣṭafā, 'the Chosen One', a title of the Prophet Muhammad.
1119. مَشْرَبَا : Drink (mashrab): a spiritual 'drink' or source of mystical knowledge and delight.
1120. طَهَ : Ṭā Hā: one of the names of the Prophet Muhammad, from the Quranic chapter Ṭā Hā (20:1), often interpreted as a divine address.
1121. التَّفْرِيدِ : Singling out (al-tafrīd): a Sufi term for the state of focusing solely on God, distinct from tawḥīd (unity).