[175] And he—His glory is mighty—stated: 'Our earthly world consists of those cast down; from the Microcosm [al-'alam al-saghir] they were cast down, and back to it they shall return upon achieving absolute purity.'

Our Master the Shaykh stated in his Diwan:

So the Luminous Ones [al-nayyirun] unto their primary Light have been elevated,

While the dark, opaque ones are cast down into five graded degrees of descent...

And he stated in his treatise as well: 'Whosoever achieves absolute purification from this lower sublunary world [al-'alam al-sufli], they shall—by virtue of the degree of the Attachées [al-Lahiqin]—attach themselves [to the celestial realm], and unto it they shall ultimately return.

And Shaykh Ibrahim [ibn] Abd al-Latif said in Sharh Diwan Sayyiduna al-Shaykh: 'And it is said that the believer, after achieving absolute purification, desires to meet with his brother who is still in the process of becoming purified, and to engage in spiritual remembrance with him due to the love and allegiance that existed between them during their physical human existence. Thus,