the form of the truth in that matter becomes clear to the one concerned.
He has six hundred keys to stations, in each station such sciences as God wills. He has knowledge of blending and balanced composition; he knows neither deviation, deficiency, nor excess.
His dwelling is in the Dome of Arin, withdrawn from creation except those whom God wills. He lived pleasantly with God until God took him in death. He too had been among the Pegs and then passed to Polehood.
(Gathering, Beginninglessness, and Temporal Origination)
He says that existence is the existence of the Real, and that gathering is the Real’s gathering of the attributes of beginninglessness and temporal origination. This is a strange science concerning gathering.
I have seen none of the people of God affirm it except this Pole. For I witnessed these Poles: the Real caused me to witness them, though they had already departed from this world.
It is the knowledge brought by the Revealed Laws concerning the Real; thus we say that this is gathering.
In his view, the temporally originated being makes a claim to those attributes called temporally originated; because of its claim, we have said that this is gathering.
Otherwise the affair is one: all are attributes of beginninglessness in the Beginningless, and temporally originated in the temporally originated being, because they appear within it after not having been manifest. Thus they originate for the one qualified by them, as He said: ‘No newly originated reminder comes to them from their Lord’ [al-Anbiya’ 21:2]. Yet it is nothing but God’s beginningless speech. Thus we gathered together, as belonging to Him, what is His along with its relation to us; whoever does this is called a possessor of gathering and finding.
What is ruled by the rulings of possible things is the existence of the Real, and nothing else.
