High; and therefore this unveiling which exists in this degree is called by the
name of God, and there is no god but God, because all worshippers turn towards
this degree in which He is unveiled, and because it is their goal, to which
their souls retire to rest, and in it their hearts repose.' 1
Jilani also in the commentary on the Gulshan-i-Raz-i-Mahmudi has
thus written: 'When 2 the essence of the oneness required the first
self-manifestation, which is the all-embracing gulf between the necessary and
the contingent, the oneness in connexion with these circumstances became the
unique divine names. (And they call that first self-manifestation the
universal reason, and the pen, and the greatest spirit.) And the multiplicity
of these (the divine) names is in connexion with the variety of attributes.
And the sources of all things,
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