In the name of God the merciful and the compassionate.
Praise be to God whose actions are beautiful (al-ḥasan al-fiʿāl), “the Beautiful (jamīl) who loves beauty (al-jamāl)”,1 who created the world in the most perfect (akmal) form and adorned it (zayyanahu).2 He chaptered out in degrees the wisdom of the unknowable when He brought it into being, alluding through it to the place of the mystery and particularising it. He set out a detailed summary of it for the ones who know [God] and explained it, and made that which is within the realm of bodies an adornment (zayna) for it.3 Then he caused the knowers to “pass away” (afnā) in the witnessing (mushāhada) of that adornment with ecstasy and rapture (wajdan wa walahan).
May God give His blessings and peace upon the one who was revealed to in the best (aḥsan) form, the one who was sent with the most complete (akmal) way and the most excellent (aḥsan) life, Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allah, who was spoken to in the high station, the one who was favoured with total perfection (al-kamāl al-kullī) and the bringing down of the inspiration [of the Qur’ān], and upon his family and his friends
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