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عاد عليه، فعذب إن آخذه الله بذٰلك.

ومن أحوال هٰذا الإمام أن يسأل دائما الانتقال إلى مقام المشاهدة من الأحوال ومقام الصلاح من المقامات وله اطلاع دائم إلى الجنان.

وإنما خصه الله بهٰذا الاطلاع إبقاء عليه فيقابل ما هو عليه من البكاء والحزن المؤدي إلى القنوط بما يراه ويطلعه الله عليه من سرور الجنان ونعيم أهله فيه ويعاين اشتياق أهله إليه وانتظارهم لقدومه فيكون ذٰلك سببا لاعتداله.

ومقام هٰذا الإمام الإحسان الأول وهو قول جبريل عليه السلام لرسول الله عليه الصلاة والسلام: «ما الإحسان؟» وجوابه صلى الله عليه وسلم: «الإحسان أن تعبد الله كأنك تراه» والذي بعده ليس لهٰذا الإمام.

وبيد هٰذا الإمام مصالح العالم وما ينتفعون به وهو يربي الأفراد ويغذيهم بالمعارف الإلهية ويقسم المعارف على أهلها بميزان محقق على قدر ما يرى فيه صلاح ذٰلك العارف لتحيا بتلك المعرفة نفسه وله السيادة على الثقلين والحكم والتصرف فيهما بما تعطيه المصلحة لهم.

ومن خصائص هٰذا الإمام الإقامة على كل ما يحصل له من الأحوال والمقامات وليس ذٰلك لكل أحد؛ فما يتصف بحال فينتقل عنه، ولا بمقام.

وغير هٰذا الإمام إذا انتقل إلى مقام أو حال حكم عليه سلطان ذٰلك المقام والحال

returns upon him, and he is tormented if God takes him to task for it.

Among this Imam’s conditions is continually asking to pass to the station of witnessing among the states and the station of righteousness among the stations. He has a continual view into the Gardens.

God singles him out for this view to preserve him. He counters his weeping and sorrow, which lead toward despair, with the joy of the Gardens and the bliss of their people that he sees and God allows him to behold. He witnesses their longing for him and their awaiting his arrival. This becomes a cause of his equilibrium.

This Imam’s station is the first beneficence: Gabriel’s asking God’s Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, “What is beneficence?” and his answer, God bless him and grant him peace, “Beneficence is that you worship God as though you see Him.” What follows it does not belong to this Imam.

In this Imam’s hand are the world’s welfare and what benefits its people. He trains the Solitaries and nourishes them with divine gnosis. He distributes gnosis among its people by a realized balance, according to what he sees will benefit that gnostic, so that his self may live through that gnosis. He has sovereignty over the two weighty races, humankind and jinn, and rules and acts among them according to what their welfare requires.

Among this Imam’s special qualities is remaining in every state and station he acquires. This does not belong to everyone: he does not become characterized by a state and then leave it, nor by a station.

When someone other than this Imam passes to a station or state, the authority of that station and state governs him