By force
Then he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, “Indeed, God has ninety-nine names, one hundred minus one. Whoever counts them will enter Paradise.
And he said that God has seventy thousand veils .
To Other than that, he appeared in the world in action, and the force withdrew with him, so he is in the world by force and action. Our purpose, if God extends life and lengthens the term, is to put in the properties of number a topic that we have not previously approached in my knowledge, in which we reveal the secrets of numbers, what their facts give in the divine presence and in the world, and the connections that you rejoice in. Secrets and happiness will be attained through it in the abode of decision.
[ Return to the beginning: Meanings of the world of letters ]
As for our saying of its simple elements, we do not mean the simple signs of the shape of the letter, for example, which is R, but we want the simple words that are the word that refers to it, which is the name or designation, which is your saying “sad,” so the simple things of this word we want. As for the simple words of the form, it does not have simple letters, but it has decrease, completeness, and increase, such as the rā’ and the zaī, half of the nūn, the waw, half of the qāf, and the kāf, four-fifths of the tā’, four-sixths of the dha’a, and the dal. The two fifths of the tā’ and yā’ are subjunctive, and the lam is added to the alif with the nūn and to the nūn with the alif and similar to this. As for the simple forms of the letters, that is from [Page 82 of the Cairo edition] the dots in particular, according to the size of a dot with its radials and on