Our companions disagreed regarding the station of knowledge, the knower, and the station of knowledge and the scholar. A group said the station of knowledge is divine, and the station of knowledge is divine, and I say it, and by it the investigators such as Sahl al-Tustari, Abu Yazid, Ibn al-Arif, and Abu Madin said, and a group said the station of knowledge is divine. And the status of knowledge is other than its Lord. I also say that they meant by knowledge what we meant by knowledge, and they meant by knowledge what we meant by knowledge, so the disagreement therein is verbal, and our basis is the saying of God Almighty. And when they hear what was revealed to the Messenger, you will see their eyes overflowing with tears from what they recognized of the truth, so he called them knowers, and he did not call them scholars. Then he mentioned them. He said: They say Our Lord, and they did not say, “Our God, we believe