[ Ahl al-Hadith Councils ]

Let us mention the gatherings of the scholars of hadith, which are forty-eight meetings, and according to Al-Tirmidhi the Wise, fifty-six meetings, because Al-Tirmidhi takes into account a person’s share of his nature, so he adds twelve meetings, which is correct. And whoever among us restricts a person to his spirituality other than his nature, it is thirty-six meetings, and this is why the disagreement occurred between us and the scholars. Among the people of these councils, some of us considered that and some of us did not, but it is better to consider it

[ Gatherings to bring the servant and the Lord together ]

As for the gatherings between the servant and the Lord, there are four gatherings in which he learns what the Truth is speaking to him about, how to address creation for the sake of God, and how to praise the Truth, Blessed and Most High, and he knows the meaning of His saying, “Blessed be whoever is in Hell and those around it,” and he speaks to him in them in a manner similar to His saying, “Eat of what God has provided for you, lawful and good,” so he knows who Where is good for him, and what is good for him, and what is good for him, and He knows the other name, what it attributes to the truth, and what the servant has had of it, and He knows what He says whenever it is mentioned to a higher assembly than spirit and human beings in the heavens and the earth, and He knows the testimony of monotheism in relation to God, in relation to the angels, and in relation to the human scholars that it attains. From the standpoint of witnesses, not from the standpoint of thought, and he kn

[ Councils of separation between the Lord and the servant ]

As for the separation sessions, what happens in these gatherings occurs in another way and with a different taste, except that the situation differs when the session ends with witnessing divine names that he did not know before, or with witnessing divine names in terms of objects of specific universes, or by witnessing objects of specific universes other than that. A connection with divine names, even if in the same matter they are connected to them, there is a thin veil between them and this servant .

[ The Four Ranking Councils ]

As for the four sittings that remained of the same levels, I will mention what is in them and in these six Hadiths in the eighth chapter in his question, “What are their conversations and conversations?” These gatherings are also found in the second and fourth Hadhras. As for the third Hadhrat, it has six sittings, and as for the fifth Hadhrat, it has four sittings. The sixth has two gatherings, and these are all the gatherings of the scholars of hadith, not the gatherings of witnesses, except according to some of the knowledgeable, for they may be gatherings of witnesses imagined from behind the veil of imagination .

[ The twelve more councils according to Al-Tirmidhi ]

As for the twelve sittings that they have according to the doctrine of Al-Tirmidhi, as we have stated, which is the completion of the forty-eight sittings, their hadith about it, we will mention it when mentioning the thirty-six sittings in the eighth chapter, God willing, for that chapter is its surah.

( Question six )

If you say how many are they?

We said in the answer that the number of the people of Badr are the people of hadith, including forty souls, and what remains is for them to sit with witnesses without having hadith, for the hadith is for the presence with the meaning given by the speech, not with the speaker, unless the speaker is such that the listener imagines him and combines them. Between the hadith and the witnesses, but what are the witnesses required for people of taste? You must be where you are to benefit from the hadith, but you hear it not with your eyes, but rather by its appearance in you. Because you are a manifestation, you hear, and because you are an eye, you are a manifestation, so understand.

[ The symbolism of the fortieth morning ]

The tongue of truthful news referred to this number by saying, “Whoever is sincere to God for forty mornings, the springs of wisdom will appear from his heart on his tongue.”

That is, it is part of talking about God about God and the morning that the servant’s eye appears as a manifestation, not an eye, and the insides of his eyes are in his appearance. Like the stomachs of the night when there is morning, and the forty are a reference to the notables of these people. It is the same as what we said, that the people of hadith include forty souls.

[ The people of the councils benefit from manifestation without hadith ]

So the people of the gatherings remained without speech, two hundred and seventy-three souls, who are three hundred and thirteen, so their sitting is a sitting of watching to benefit from the fact that their notables are a manifestation of the sight of the truth, so they see it through it, while they are unseen in that manifestation, and their benefit from that manifestation is the benefit of those who observe, so the observations give them knowledge without speech. But it is a moral hadith with apparent connotations. These connotations take the place of speech with letters and signs in the world of letters and signs. The purpose achieved by these gatherings, whether they are gatherings of witnesses or a hadith of attaining exaltation, is revealed in the eye of this person who looks or hears, and these are the people of God who are cared for .

( Seventh question )

If you say by what thing, they make this obligatory upon their Lord, Blessed and Most High.

We said in the answer, Divine Etiquette, that nothing is obligatory upon God by an obligatory obligation other than Himself. If He obligates upon Himself a certain matter, then He is the one who obligates, the obligatory, and the obligatory for Him.