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  • How is this disposal (of things) by the Divine destiny (to be called) singular? Know that it is by the Divine destiny that he (the infidel) disbelieves in the Divine destiny.
  • The story of Adam, on whom be peace, and how the Divine destiny sealed up his sight so that he failed to observe the plain meaning of the prohibition and to refrain from interpreting it.
  • The father of mankind, who is the lord of He (God) taught (Adam) the Names, hath hundreds of thousands of sciences in every vein.
  • To his soul accrued (knowledge of) the name of every thing, even as that thing exists (in its real nature) unto the end (of the world). 1235
  • No title that he gave became changed: that one whom he called ‘brisk’ did not become ‘lazy.’
  • Whoso is (to be) a believer at the last, he saw at the first; whoso is (to be) an infidel at the last, to him it became manifest.
  • Do thou hear the name of every thing from the knower: hear the inmost meaning of the mystery of He taught the Names.
  • With us, the name of every thing is its outward (appearance); with the Creator, the name of every thing is its inward (reality).
  • In the eyes of Moses the name of his rod was ‘staff’; in the eyes of the Creator its name was ‘dragon.’ 1240
  • Here the name of ‘Umar was ‘idolater,’ but in Alast. his name was ‘believer.’
  • That of which the name, with us, was ‘seed’ was, in the sight of God, this figure (of thee) who art (now) with me.