Selections from Ibn Turka al-Isfahānī’s Tamhīd al-qawā’id

Praise be to God who made the places obscured by the shadows of His magnifi cence, loci in which are disclosed the lights of His beauty, differentiating what is undifferentiated among the inherent properties (aḥkām); who made the forms of His Self-disclosures (tajalliyāt) places in which the suns of realities arise, completing what is universal among the blessings. So they became, for both His servants who receive His loving-kindness and for those opposed to Him who are distant from Him, the loci wherein the stars of the Gnostic sciences (maʿārif) arise and in which the foremost gifts (ʿawārif) set, granting the desires that the tongue of preparedness expresses.