This knowledge is called the knowledge of the saints, and through it the essence of beings appear. Do you not see that the Truth pointed out this by His saying, “Be,” and it is? So the universe appeared from the letters, and from here Al-Tirmidhi made it the science of the saints, and from here he prevented the one who prevented the single letter from being made, for he saw that with divine power, it did not come about creation. One letter, but it brings three letters, an unseen letter and two apparent letters, if the being is one. If it is more than one, three letters appear. These are the sciences of these men mentioned in this chapter. Most of the men of this knowledge made a table for that and made mistakes in it, but it was not correct. I do not know whether they did it with intention so that they would leave the people in Blindness to this knowledge, or are they ignorant of it? The later ones followed the Sunnahs of the earlier ones, and the student of Ja`far al-Sadiq and ot