In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Merciful
Section Five: Mutual Encounters
Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-Four: On Knowing the Mutual Encounters of Address
It belongs to the secret of His saying, mighty and majestic is He: “It is not for a human being that God should speak to him except through revelation or from behind a veil” [al-Shūrā 42:51]. It belongs to the Muhammadan Presence.
The mutual encounters of the sciences reveal
The realities of the Real and the servants,
Without excess or disputation,
Without argument or obstinacy.
Say to my intellect: Refrain! For my transmission
Guides toward knowledge and right guidance.
All my remembrance leads to soundness,
While some of my thought leads to corruption.
The most beneficial knowledge is knowledge of my poverty
Toward the Master, the Bestower, the Generous.
(The Meaning of Mutual Encounter and the Relation of Descent)
Know, may God support you and us,
