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In the Name of God, the All-Perfect, the All-Perfect

Praise be to God Who has exalted Himself in His transcendence above all contingent things, and risen in His loftiness above all created things, and made Himself unapproachable in His inaccessibility above all existing things, and established His dominion above all atoms, and demonstrated His power over all who dwell in the kingdoms of earth and heaven. His creation bears witness, and I bear witness, that there is no God but Him, the One, the Most Perfect.

He has chosen a sublime Essence, and a pure and resplendent Reality, an exalted and crystalline Being, a distinguished and transcendent Nature, a radiant and effulgent Identity, a brilliant and lustrous Presence, a majestic and magnificent Existence, an august and splendid Entity, a powerful and mighty Reality, and a most glorious and sublime Being. Then did His Glory shine forth in its own essence, and He cast into its identity the image of His Self. Thus was manifested from it that which was within and upon it, filling thereby the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them.

There is no God but Him, and verily the Being of the Seven Letters [ʿAli-Muhammad] is His servant and His Word. God has chosen for Him names of His Primal Nature equaling the essential numbers of all things, and through them have the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them been filled. Verily, there is no God but Him, the Supreme, the Self-Subsisting.