And know that this house, even if it seeks oneness and exaltation in all aspects, appears in the formal revelation restricted to the outward appearance as a house standing on five pillars with a raised roof surrounded by walls. There is no open door in it, so no one can enter it in any way, but outside the house there is a standing column attached. To the wall of the house, the people of revelation wipe with it just as they kiss and wipe with the black stone that God placed outside the house and made it his right hand and added it to it, not to the house. Likewise, this pillar is not added to this house, even if it is from it, it is not specific to it, for it is present in every divine house, as if it were an interpreter. Between us and what the Manzils give of knowledge, and Ibn Masarra al-Jabali pointed out this in his book Al-Huruf, and this column has an eloquent tongue that expresses to us what the Manzils contain, so we benefit from knowledge of that. Among the Manzils is th