Al-Maliki then alerted him that whatever he did, he did it out of his command, for he has no command and is not one of the people of command, and he is a strange position among the stations. If God Almighty had permitted us to reveal him to creation, knowledge would have appeared that cannot be established for him, since three issues have emerged from his impact. A person who bore witness to God before His Prophet of His justice and purity and became his follower and made clear to him what I had heard and included himself among his followers under His condition. He is like Moses, God’s keeper and deliverer. Where is his speech with his Lord compared to his speech with Al-Khidr? So the manifestations differed in speech, and yet he was not patient because he made the exception and did not submit it to what I deny it, for it is the nature of the Prophet to be followed just as he is followed, and likewise he said: I follow except what is revealed to me, what he said, I should do or sa