The sheikhs are the representatives of truth in the world, like the messengers, peace be upon him, in their time. Rather, they are the heirs who inherited the knowledge of the laws from the prophets, peace be upon him. However, they do not legislate. They have the right, may God be pleased with them, to preserve the law in general. They do not have the right to legislate. They have the right to preserve hearts and observe morals in particular. They are among the scholars of God. He is in the same position as a doctor with a natural scientist. The doctor does not know nature except in what it is that governs the human body in particular, and the natural scientist knows it absolutely, even if he is not a doctor. The sheikh may combine the two matters, but the share of old age in knowledge of God is to know from people the means and sources of their movements, and knowledge of thoughts that are blameworthy and praiseworthy and the subject of confusion. What enters into it is the appe