The Muhammadan Poles are those who inherit from Muhammad, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, what is peculiar to him of laws and states absent from any prior Revealed Law or messenger.
If it was in a Revealed Law preceding his Law and is also part of his Law, or in a messenger before him and is also in him, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, that person inherits from that particular messenger, but through Muhammad, God’s blessings and peace be upon him. He is therefore attributed only to that messenger, although he belongs to this community.
He is called Mosaic if it comes from Moses, or Jesus-like, Abrahamic, or whatever messenger or prophet it may be.
Only someone possessing what we have mentioned as peculiar to Muhammad, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, is attributed to him. Nothing is more comprehensive in this particularity than not being delimited by a station through which one is distinguished. The Muhammadan is distinguished only by having no determinate station: his station is no station[3].
(The Station and Turning with Every Breath)
We shall explain its meaning: a person’s state may dominate him, so that he is known only through it, attributed to it, and defined by it.
The relation of stations to the Muhammadan is the relation of Names to God. He is not defined within a station to which he is attributed. Rather, in every breath, time, and state, he possesses the form required by that breath, time, or state.
His delimitation does not
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(The author explains this expression as the Muhammadan’s not being confined within a particular station, while knowing what he turns within.)
