sending for the reform of His servants sanctified angels, but they are in the image upon the parallel of humans, so they reside between the backs of mankind, they travel in the horizons and walk in the marketplaces, they sacrifice themselves upon that goal and perish in that path, and they sacrifice all their goals and their miles upon the profit of the general good and human benefit, then they come out from the world light, their burdens are heavy by computation their scales.

praised are their efforts and their legacies are sanctified, and by the agreement of most scholars what they have brought in poetry and prose that the Prophet, His glory is mighty, a shadow was not seen for him nor bodily waste, and whoever was like that, then he is not possessor of a body composed of density, since the dense must have a shadow for it and does not subsist without food, and the possessor of food is not devoid of bodily waste.

[202] And from Jabir ibn 'Abdillah al-Ansari that he said: A shadow of the Prophet, His glory is mighty, did not fall upon an earth nor a shadow was seen for him, because the shadow is from the darkness of density, and he did not walk with anyone except that he was taller than them by his head even if he was tall, and the bird does not fly above him,