We may refer to it from afar in places in this book of my book for the discerning researcher to pay attention to it, but I say that the Chosen One, Glory be to Him, wanted to compose it because of what preceded in His knowledge the creation of the world, and that it is the origin of most of it, or its origin, if you will. So he composed it and it did not exist in its essence, but He created it as a compilation that did not [Page 56 from the Cairo edition]

He creates them singly and then combines them, for their facts refuse that. So he created the form which is the composing of two of these realities, so they became as if they had existed separately, then they were combined, so a reality that did not exist at the time of separation appeared for the composing. The facts give that these The Mothers did not exist in their essence at all before the existence of the forms composed of them, so when He created these forms, which are water, fire, air, and earth, He, Glory be to Him, made them transform one into the other, so that fire returned to air and the air to fire, just as the tā’ turned into a tā’ and the sīn turned into a ṣād, because the astronomy from which the first mothers were created was created from them. The letters

[ The spheres of the elements and the spheres of the letters ]

So the sphere from which the earth was found, from which the letters “thaa” and “taa” were found, except for the head of the jiem, half of the vein of the lam, and the head of the khaa. And two-thirds of the ha’ and the dāl are the dry ones, the nūn, the meem, and the flaq from which water was found, the letter sheen, ghān, ta, ha, dād, and the head of the ba with one dot, and the duration of the body of the fa without its head, and the head of the qāf.