My situation in Eskishehir Prison does not allow me to explain fully that Greatest Light. However, Imam Ali (May God be pleased with him) expounded the Greatest Name in his ode Arjuza under the exalted name of Sakina, and in his ode Jaljalutiyya he considered together with some other sublime Names these six Names contained within the Greatest Name stating them to be the greatest and most important. Moreover, I have received extraordinary consolation from his discussion of them. And so, as we have with the preceeding five Names, we shall allude to the Name of Self-Subsistent, to that Greatest Light, with Five Rays in what is at the very least an abbreviated form.

The Glorious Creator of the universe is Self-Subsistent, that is, He subsists, continues, endures of Himself. All things subsist and continue through Him, they remain in existence and have permanence. If that relationship of Self-Subsistence was cut off from the universe for even the fraction of a second, the universe would be annihilated.

Furthermore, as the Qur’an of Mighty Stature decrees, together with the All-Glorious One’s Self-Subsistence,