The talk about piety, its people, and abandoning it will be mentioned inside the book in mentioning the stations and states of it, God willing, and what relates to this section is the talk about knowing a group of its poles and the generality of its station. Know that Abu Abdullah Al-Harith bin Asad Al-Muhasibi was among the people of this station, as was Abu Yazid Al-Bustami. And our Sheikh Abu Madian, in our time, was one of his elite, and the most pious among them was to avoid participating in