In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate
Section Six on the Poles’ Constant Invocations and Their Muhammadan Stations
Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty-Two: On the Muhammadan Poles and Their Abodes
The Yathribi whom no attribute confines,
nor station nor state defines—
his formation arose with reins let loose, unrestricted,
so none among us can delineate him.
Whoever says that he has an attribute has no
knowledge of him when his Producer appears.
Our knowledge of him, if we know him, blemishes him,
while our ignorance, in my knowledge, adorns him.
God Most High said of the angels and the Highest Assembly, “None among us but has a known station” [al-Saffat 37:164]. He also said, “People of Yathrib, you have no station” [al-Ahzab 33:13]. It thus resembles “Nothing is like Him” [al-Shura 42:11]: that is, this verse resembles the other verse.
(The Meaning of the Pole, His Spirit, and His Form)
The foundation of the subject of the Poles is
