and jinn, is equal in unveiling what is absent from human sensation. No jinn or human witnesses this unseen except at a time of breaking customary order, through a marvel God honors him with or a particular property of some affair that gives unveiling of unseen things.
Every inanimate thing, plant, and animal in the whole world, within the world of humans and jinn, the angels’ bodies, the spheres, and every form governed by a spirit—whether that governance is sensible in one whose life is manifest or insensible in one whose life is hidden, like human limbs, skins, and the like—all these are in the locus of unveiling divine unseen things concealed from the spirits governing these bodies, whether angel, human, or jinn, no others.
They are veiled from apprehending this divine unseen except through breaking customary order, in some or all of them.
You know that stone, animal, and plant knew Muhammad’s prophethood, God bless him and grant him peace, through this door, among the divine unseen things. Every spirit deems such a thing impossible unless God makes it known to it, except those we mentioned: they know it through the innate disposition upon which God created them. When he appears, the Real calls to them within their essences by his name, and when he is present in person.
(An Account of Creatures’ Gnosis of the Friends of God)
Yusuf ibn Yakhlaf al-Kumi, among the greatest we met in this path, told me
