Within it is knowledge of a truthful person’s being called a liar; knowledge of seeking refuge, what refuge is sought through and from, where it is praiseworthy, and in which place it is blameworthy.
(Acknowledgment, Address, and Independent Judgment)
Within it is knowledge of what acknowledgment benefits and what does not. Places have a ruling in acknowledgment, and states also have a ruling within it. Some people acknowledge error while remaining upon it, and others depart from it.
Within it is knowledge of the nobility of address and the existence of delight in it; knowledge of the wisdom of doubt’s existence within the world; and knowledge of the deliverance of the independent interpreter, whether he errs or is correct, after fully expending what God has given him of that. ‘God speaks the truth, and He guides upon the way’ [al-Ahzab 33:4].
Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Two: On Knowing the Abode of the Prostration of the Heart and the Face, the Whole and the Part: the Abode of the Two Kinds of Prostration and the Two Acts of Prostration
Sahl’s station is the heart’s prostration. It has
No rulings in any created being other than Sahl.
