is the sage of sages and the gnostic of gnostics, and were it not for him, no one from this group would have been guided, nor known how to approach nor how to depart. He divided the stations of those organized in the string of guardianship (Wilayah) into three ranks, and for the people of every rank is a specific perspective, and the disparity among them is due to the strength of readiness for facing the Manifesting One to them during His manifestation, etc.

And 'Umar ibn 'Uthman al-Makki said: Witnessing is that the lights of manifestation follow consecutively without a veil or an interruption entering between them, just as if the connection of lightning were destined in the dark night, so just as it becomes by that in the brightness of the day, likewise the wayfarer when the manifestation continues for him, then there is no night.

[211] And it was narrated from al-Mufaddal ibn 'Umar, peace is upon him, that he asked Imam al-Sadiq, His glory is mighty, he said: O my master, we narrated from your grandfather the Messenger of Allah, His glory is mighty, that he said: The world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the disbeliever, so how is that O my master?, he said: Know O Mufaddal,