He smiled at his words and said: "In what we are upon, we are free; we wander and roam in the Kingdom. When we are liberated from this shirt you see us in, we ascend to the heaven and become stars among those joining the World of Purity (‘Ālam al-Ṣafā’), liberated from every matter related to worldly affairs."

Then he said to us: "All that comes to you of the varieties of aloe wood is from our touch of these blooming, pure trees. Likewise amber is but from the traces of our footsteps and the places where the waters we use and serve flow. Likewise the jewels, rubies, and all you see of these varieties are but blessings from us, connected forever, never ceasing as long as we remain."

The State of the Weakened Among the Believers

My Master said to him: "In which party?"

He said: "In our party you are liberated, O Shias of Amir Al-muminin—safe and enduring as long as the heavens and the earth endure."

My Master said: "And the Shias of Ali—the weak, the poor, the oppressed, and the needy—what is their rank? What necessitated their staying behind, and when shall be their liberation?"

He said to us: "The people of weakness and need among the Shias, the poor and needy, stopped short of the Reality (al-Ḥaqīqah) which you two reached and arrived at. They thought that if they were content with what they did and heard—without attaining deep understanding (tafaqquh) in religion or walking the paths of the religious sages—they would be liberated from murkiness and distinguished from the dark world.

The matter is not so. Only he becomes pure from the density of darkness, is liberated from bewilderment and accusation, and roams in the Kingdom without provision or nourishment, who has secured his faith, known his Ancient One (Qadīm) and his Judge (Dayyān), and