The highest group is the one possessing a thousand stations. Next in elevation is the group possessing three thousand, followed in elevation by the group possessing five thousand.
Above all groups are those who have no station, for stations rule over those within them. Without doubt, the highest group consists of those who hold the ruling, not those ruled over. These are the divine ones, because the Real is their entity, and He is “the wisest of judges” [Hud 11:45]. This belongs to no people except the Muhammadans, as a prior divine providential care for them, as He Most High said of their like, “Those for whom the best has already gone forth from Us shall be kept far from it” [al-Anbiya 21:101], meaning the Fire. Since the Fire is among these stations, they are in truth kept far from stations.
(Goals and the Breadth of the Muhammadan Witnessing)
The people of stations are those whose spiritual aspirations have been confined to goals and endpoints. When they reach those goals, other goals arise anew in their hearts, and the goals they have reached become beginnings for these other goals. The goals rule over them through their seeking them, and this remains their affair perpetually.
The Muhammadan has neither this ruling nor this confinement. His breadth is the Real’s breadth. The Real has no limit within Himself at which His existence ends, and the Real is what the Muhammadan
