I entered upon our sheikh, Abu Muhammad Abdullah al-Shakaz, in Granada, from the country of Andalusia. He was from the people of Baghah, and he was one of the eldest people I met on the path of God. He said to me, “My brother, there are four men. We did not send before you except men, men who were not distracted by trade or sale from the remembrance of God, and men who were true to what they said.” They made a covenant with God about it, and proclaimed the Hajj among the people. They will come to you as men, meaning on their feet, not riding, and on the heights are men, so he meant by the four men to enumerate the ranks, because there is then only a messenger, a prophet, a saint, and a believer, and apart from these four, they are not considered in terms of their essence, because a thing is only considered in terms of its status. Not in terms of his human eye, as humanity has one eye in every human being, but rather