married one thousand Fatimas, all of whom were the daughters of Mohammed the Son of Abdallah, the 'Seal of the Prophets'?"
Consider how many mysteries are hidden in the tents of the Knowledge of God, and what jewels of His Wisdom are concealed in the treasuries of preservation, so that thou mayest be convinced that there hath been and will be neither beginning nor end to His creation. The Space of His Destiny is too vast to be limited by explanation or traversed by the bird of minds and His ordained decrees are beyond attainment by any comprehension. His creation hath been from the " Beginning before which there is no beginning," and no "End" hath overtaken it. The Manifestations of His Beauty will be until the interminable End; and no Beginning hath beheld Him.
Consider this same explanation, and how truly it can be applied to all these Faces. Likewise understand the saying of the Eternal Beauty Hosein the son of Ali to Salman, the import of which is this: " I was with a thousand Adams; the interval between each and the next Adam was fifty thousand years, and to every one of these I declared the Walayat (succession) of my father (Ali) ." Then he mentions certain particulars until he says, "I have fought one thousand battles in the path of God, the least and smallest of which was like the battle of Khaibar, in which my father strove and fought against the infidels." Thus understand from these two traditions the mysteries of
