[ The ranks of the letters, their movements, and their facts ]

As for our saying of its second rank up to the seventh, we mean by that the primitives of these letters that are common in numbers. The nun, with its primitives, is two in divinity, and the meem, with its primitives, is three in the human and the gem. The waw, kaf, and qaf with its syllables are four in the jinn, the dhaal, the zay, the sad, the ayn, the dhaad, the syen, the dhaal, the ghayn, and the shin with its syllables are five in the beasts, the alif, the haa, and the lam with its syllables are six in the plant, and the ba, the ha, the tā’, the yā’, the fa’, the ra’, the tā’, the tha’, the kha’, and the dha with its syllables are seven in inanimate objects. As for our saying, its movement is crooked, straight, reversed, or Mixed or horizontal, so by straight I mean every letter that moves the desire to the side of the truth, especially from the side of negation if you are knowledgeable and from the side of what bears witness if you are a spectator. The reversed letter is every letter that moves the desire for the universe and its secrets. And the crooked letter, which is the horizontal, is every letter that moves the desire for the attachment of the component to the component. And the mixed letter is every letter that moves the motivation for the universe. To the knowledge of two matters from what I mentioned to you onwards, and it appears in the number in the alif, the mīm al-mu'raqīq, the ha', the nūn, and the like of these. As for our saying to him the norms, the creation, the states, the karāmat, or the realities, the stations, and the stations, then know that a thing is not known except by its face, i.e. by its reality, for all that a thing is not known except by it. That