Whoever brings his child out to a scholar for testimony, while he is an imagination of his origin, witnessed by the senses, this is one of the wondrous divine secrets, and this does not happen except to the greatest of men.

[ Ibn Arabi’s meeting with a group of men of the Most Merciful ]

And there is not a class that we have mentioned except that we saw from them a group of men and women in Seville, Tlemcen, Mecca, and in many places, and they had proof attesting to the veracity of what they say, but as for us, we do not need proof with any of them. In what he claims, God has given each type a sign by which it is known. If we see that sign, we know the sincerity of its owner from where they do not make you aware. Our opinion of someone who claims that is a liar or one with a corrupt imagination. If we know that he is returning, we advise him. If we see him in love with his situation, obscured by his corrupt imagination, we leave him and the truthful one we see in this. Among the women are Fatima bint Ibn al-Muthanna in Seville, her service, and she is ninety-five years old, Shams, the mother of the poor in Marshanah, Umm al-Zahra in Seville as well, and Kalbahar in Mecca, called Sitt Ghazala. Among the men are Abu al-Abbas bin al-Mundhir, from the people of Seville, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Shabarbli from a village in the honor of Seville, called Shabarbel, and Yusuf bin Sakhr in Cordoba . /p>

[ Asceticism at the level of the outward and inward life ]

And this we have expressed to you about the conditions of the men of this chapter and what asceticism has produced for them in People and what they found from the soul of the Most Gracious, therefore and to this extent, it is