At that moment, it ascends to the known station, roams freely within the celestial realm of eternity, and witnesses everything in the universe simultaneously.'

Then he said: 'Beware, beware, my brothers, lest any of the weak believers imagine that the soul of man is the Lord—Exalted is Allah far above that! Rather, the servant is a servant, and the Lord is the Lord. How can a rational person fail to distinguish between the cause [al-'illah] and the effect [al-ma'lul], the eternal [al-qadim] and the temporal [al-muhdath], the necessary [al-wajib] and the contingent [al-mumkin], the Creator [al-sani'] and the created [al-masnu']? For indeed, in such [confusion] lies the corruption of religion, the demolition of faith, and the deviation from truth. For he has indeed drawn wrath from Allah and associated partners with Him—whosoever fails to distinguish that of which he has no knowledge, misdirected by his own ignorance; and that is sufficient as a manifest sin.

And Sheikh Ahmad Ali Hasan said in his Epistle of the Basil [Risalat al-Rayahin]: 'Sheikh Hussein Ahmad said in his Epistle of the Highroad to Success [Risalat Jaddat al-Najah], within the sixth inquiry concerning the meaning of the soul and the body: "The soul is a subtle, hidden essence;