Outward Names Inward Names

With us, the name of every thing is its outward (appearance); with the Creator, the name of every thing is its inward (reality).
In the eyes of Moses the name of his rod was ‘staff’; in the eyes of the Creator its name was ‘dragon’.
Here the name of ‘Umar was ‘idolater,’ but in Alast. his name was ‘believer.’
That of which the name, with us, was ‘seed’ was, in the sight of God, thou who art at this moment beside me. This ‘seed’ was a form (idea) in non-existence (potentiality), existent with God, neither more nor less (than the form in which it appeared externally).
In brief, that which is our end is really our name with God.

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