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« theophany. See, for example, Sulamī, Bayān laṭāʾif al-miʿrāj, trans. Colby, Nos 13, 15 and 45, and translator’s comment to the latter p. 126. Some commentators contrasted the two prophets’ experiences in order to illustrate the opposite sta- tions of talwīn (vacillation) and tamkīn (firmness or stability) — the latter being the equivalent to Tustarī’s thabāt. See the section on talwīn and tamkīn in Qushayrī’s Risāla, pp. 232–5, trans. Knysh, p. 101; Sulamī, Risāla al-Malāmatiyya in Nasrollah Pourjavady, ed., Majmūʿa (Tehran, 1990), p. 403; French trans. Deladrière, p. 30; and Maybudī, Kashf al-asrār, »