Five, seven, or nine in the establishment of the Mahdi and all that is needed from what constitutes the establishment of his ministers, there are nine things that do not have a tenth and are not less than that, which are the insight of the eye, the knowledge of the divine speech when reciting, the knowledge of translation from God, the designation of the ranks for those in authority, mercy in anger, and what is needed. To Him belongs the dominion of tangible and intelligible sustenances, the knowledge of matters interfering with one another, exaggeration and investigation in fulfilling people’s needs, and understanding the knowledge of the unseen that is needed in the universe in its particular duration. These are nine things that must be in the minister of the Imam Mahdi if the minister is one or his ministers if they are more. From one person, as for the influence of sight, this is so that his supplication to God is based on insight into the one to whom he is called, not into th