Al-Awtad, which are four at any time, neither adding nor subtracting from them. We saw among them a person in the city of Fez, called Ibn Ja’doun, who was sifting henna for a fee. One of them protected the East and his guardianship in it, and the other the West, the other the South, and the other the North, and the division from the Kaaba. And these may be expressed by the mountains, according to the Almighty’s saying, “Have We not made the earth a bed and the mountains as pegs? For with the mountains rests the middle of the earth. Thus is the ruling of these in the world the ruling of the mountains on the earth, and to their position is indicated by the Almighty’s saying about Satan, “Then I will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them and from faith.” They and their left ones, so God will protect them with these pegs And they are protected from these directions, so Satan has no power over them, as he has no entry into the sons of Adam except from thes

Among them, may God be pleased with them, are the Abdals, and they are seven, neither more nor less. With them, God preserves the seven regions. For each substitute, there is a region in which his guardianship is. One of them is at the foot of Hebron, peace be upon him, and he has the first region. I hand them over, in order, to the owner of the seventh region. The second is at the foot of the Kalim, peace be upon him, and the third is at the foot of Al-Khalil, peace be upon him. Aaron, the fourth is on the foot of Idris, the fifth is on the foot of Joseph, the sixth is on the foot of Jesus, and the seventh is on the foot of Adam. Peace be upon all, and they know what God Almighty has deposited in the moving planets of matters and secrets in their movements and descent in the destined stations. They have names and names of attributes. Among them are Abdul Hayy, Abdul Aleem, and Abdul Wadud. And Abdul Qadir and these four are the four names of the pegs, and among them are Abdul Sha

Among them, may God be pleased with them, are the captains, who are twelve captains in every era, neither more nor less than the number of the twelve signs of the astronomy. Each captain knows the characteristics of each sign and what God has deposited in its place of secrets and influences, and what He gives to those who reside in it of the moving planets and the constants. For the constants are Movements and cuts in the signs of the zodiac are not felt by the senses, because that only appears over thousands of years, and the lives of observers are too short to witness that. And know that God has placed in the hands of these prophets the knowledge of the revealed laws, and they have the right to discover the secrets and secrets of souls and to know their cunning and deceit, but as for Satan, he is exposed to them and they can be known by him. What he does not know about himself is a matter of knowledge, such that if one of them sees the mark of a person stepping on the ground, he