his saying, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, “Each of you is a shepherd,” including the human being over his limbs and all his faculties, both the desert-dwelling, which are the outward, and the settled, which are the inward.
Know that matters in the world are many and different. Whatever thing a matter revolves around is the Pole of that matter.
Everything is composed of spirit and form, so every Pole must have a spirit and form. The spirits of the matter of which this is the Pole revolve around his spirit, and the forms of that matter revolve around the Pole’s form.
One face of the Pole is called southern, which is the spirit; the other is northern, which is the form.
(The Human Being and the Intention behind the World)
Among the kinds of the world are human beings. They are intended by the world’s existence through the second intention, not the first.
The first intention in the world’s existence is the worship of God: I mean the worship of newly originated gnosis, for the perfection of existence. In each kind of the world it is complete, but not perfect. It becomes perfect only through this perfect human formation. Other than the perfect one is the animal human, defined as a speaking animal. The Poles belong to the perfect ones.
(The Two Abodes and Remembrance)
God placed the corporeal and bodily world in two Abodes: one called this world and one called the Hereafter. He made humans and jinn their inhabitants, and humans are what is considered within them.
Among humans, only the perfect ones are considered. These are those
