In this stage the knower of Allah will have certain moods [...

In this stage the knower of Allah will have certain moods [ hālāt ] which cannot be written down, and as the writer is out of “the innate disposition of humanity” [ fitrat-i insāniyyat ], indulging in the overflowing darkened sea of nature, void of truth and reality, as well as of all the stations of the sālik s and of the gnostics, the best thing for him is not to disgrace himself in the Presence of Allah, the Almighty, and his close friends, but to go past this stage and take his complaint against the evil-commanding soul to the Sacred Threshold of the Lord of Majesty, as perhaps He would extend to him a helping hand out of His general kindness and all-embracing mercy, and thus he would compensate during the rest of his life for what has passed: “ Our Lord!

We have been unjust to ourselves, and if you forgive us not and have not mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers.” [^4] The second stage is the state of the external and internal powers, which are the visible and invisible soldiers of the soul, whose place is the ground (earth = ' ard ) of man's nature, i.e., his structure and body.

The sālik 's discipline in this respect is to inform the inmost of the heart that the ground (' ard ) of his nature is the mosque of divinity and the place for the prostration of the soldiers of the Beneficent [ ar-Rahmān ].

Therefore, the mosque should not be smeared with the filths or Iblīs' intrusion, and the divine soldiers should not be put under the influence of Iblīs , so that the ground [' ard ] of the nature is illuminated with the Lord's light, and be freed from the darkness and the impurity of being away from the Court of the Lord.

So, let him believe that his visible and invisible powers are in seclusion in the mosque of the body, and he is to treat his body as he treats a mosque, and to look at his powers as being in seclusion in the Court of Allah.

In this stage, the obligations of the sālik are more, because it is his own responsibility to undertake cleaning and purifying the mosque, as he also is to observe the disciplines of seclusion on the part of those (visible and invisible powers) that are in seclusion in this mosque. The third stage is the sālik 's cordial invisible growth [ nash'ah ], whose place is the invisible barzakh ian body of the soul, which is created and developed by the soul itself.