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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Wilayah, the Station of the Master From Human Servility To Divine Sovereignty Is it an offensive thing to say, from human servility to Divine Lordliness? Is it not possible for the slave to leave the boundary of his servility and take two steps within the Divine boundary? In the words of Mahmud Shabistari: سيه روئى ز ممكن در دو عالم جدا هرگز نشد والله اعلم “Non-being is not divorced from the contingent In the two worlds: Allah is All-wise”.

[^1] True, but the meaning of `Lordliness' is godliness, not God. Every person who has power is the `Lord' over those things which are under his influence and in his possession. `Abdu '1- Muttalib said to Abrahah who had arrived with the intention of destroying the Ka'bah: "I am the lord (owner) of the camels (to claim which I have come to you), but the House has itself a Lord (to defend it ) [^2] We found the above expression from following a famous hadith which is found in Misbahu 'sh-shari`ah.

For the present we are not interested in the matter of which way to take for this purpose, nor in what leads to success or failure in that way.

But among these ways there is one way which has a marvelous condition, in this sense that man, alone, takes this way, without having the formerly mentioned aim, that is his aim is not to gain power and control over the world; but rather his aim is at the opposite extreme to this aim, that is his aim is self-abasement, humility, self-annihilation and non-being, this amazing way is the way of servility.

آن کس که تو را شناخت جان را چه کند؟ فرزند و عیال و خانمان را چه کند؟ دیوانه کنی هر دو جهانش بخشی دیوانه تو هر دو جهان را چه کند؟ “What can that person who has known you do with his soul? What can he do with his children, his family, his home?

You make him delirious and You give him the two worlds, What can someone who is delirious for You do with both the worlds?” Stations And Stages Sovereignty, lordship, and wilayah, in other words, perfection and power, which are allotted to mankind as a result of servility, sincerity and true worship, have stations and stages.