ablution and what is unavoidable, all this belongs to the ruling of the name with which he remains during his retreat.
No movement of the human being, in retreat or otherwise, occurs except through a divine name coming upon him. This is settled among us concerning divine realities, and God’s names are too many to count.
Escorting a visitor is not among the retreatant’s usual affairs. He moved for it only under the ruling of the divine name that moved the visitor toward him.
The person knows only that she is visiting to fulfill her purpose of seeing or conversing. The knower witnesses the divine names: “I have never seen a thing without seeing God before it.”
The divine name moved Ṣafiyyah from behind the veil of Ṣafiyyah. It was toward this name that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, observed proper conduct, and for it he rose and escorted her.
That name sought to manifest its sovereignty in him, and it did. We explained this in the interplay of the divine names at the beginning of this book and in ʿAnqāʾ mughrib.
Continuation on the Retreat of a Woman with Irregular Bleeding in the Mosque
The soul’s lying for a reason authorized by the revealed Law is not menstruation. For this reason a woman with irregular bleeding prays, whereas a menstruating woman does not.
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