Al-Awtad, which are four at any time, neither adding nor subtracting from them. We saw among them a person in the city of Fez, called Ibn Ja’doun, who was sifting henna for a fee. One of them protected the East and his guardianship in it, and the other the West, the other the South, and the other the North, and the division from the Kaaba. And these may be expressed by the mountains, according to the Almighty’s saying, “Have We not made the earth a bed and the mountains as pegs? For with the mountains rests the middle of the earth. Thus is the ruling of these in the world the ruling of the mountains on the earth, and to their position is indicated by the Almighty’s saying about Satan, “Then I will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them and from faith.” They and their left ones, so God will protect them with these pegs And they are protected from these directions, so Satan has no power over them, as he has no entry into the sons of Adam except from thes