Here you know the ranks of the people among the caliphs, and that the caliphs give preference to one another. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, “God created Adam in His image, and He did not create him until He ascended the Throne, and none ascended the Throne except the Most Merciful .

And when His mercy spread God Almighty said to Abu Yazid Al-Bistami, and he did not see that there was any effect on it that would remove the general rule from it. He said to the truth, “If the people knew about you what I know, they would not worship you.” And God Almighty said to him, “O Abu Yazid, if the people knew about you what I know, they would stone you.”