Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī

when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …

The Hour has drawn near with its wonders, and we have witnessed some of the wonders promised in this age of ours;

And sometimes the witnessing of the forms of that abode diverts one of those who receive unveilings from the forms of this abode, the reverse of the state of the veiled — as I heard from my teacher, the learned and excellent Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, may God, exalted be He, have mercy upon him, reporting from one of the trustworthy men he had met, that in one of the districts o …