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Four groups of People - Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse RA
And people are divided into 4 groups,
the fragrance of Allah
2) The second group are the spiritually enraptured ones (majzoub), they do not care about the outward (zahir) and and unbelievers according to the shariah with the people of the outward, and if the Islamic authority was to see them they would kill them, but in reality (haqiqa) they are really believers, and if they where to return to Allah they would find him happy and they would be beloved to Allah, and they are not concered with benefiting anybody except themselves, rather they harm others, as those who follow them will be misguided:
Do not emulate those who have ceased to practice the shariah
Even if they come with the prophets sent by Allah
(poem)
3) the third group are those who join between being enraptured (jazb) and travelling the path (suluk) and they have subsistance (baqa) after having been annahilated (fana) and they maintain good conduct according to the conduct of the shariah, and their outwards adhere to the commandments and oppose the prohibitions, and their inwards (batin) are completly absorbed and engrossed in the Essence of Allah, The Blessed and Most High, they do not witness other than Him, and they join between annahilation and susistance (fana and baqa), and subsistance after annahilation is completion (Kamal), and subsistance before annahilation is a veil (Hijab)
4) and the fourth group are the ones who have been annahilated in the Essence (Dhat) and subsist in the Viceregency (Khilafa) and have joined between annahilation and subsistance, the difference between them and the third group is that the travelling (suluk) and enrapturing (jazb) and annahilation (fana) of the third group have not exceeded the names (asma') and attributes (sifat) in reality, but the enrapturing (jazb) and travelling (suluk) and ananhilation (fana) and subsistance (baqa) of the fourth group is in the Essence of Allah, and the person who attains that returns to Allah with such a return that there no sign or way of knowing about it and there is no end in his spiritual travel (sayr) as Allah himself has no end.
From the letters and speeches of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse collected and written down by Sheikh Muhammad al-Mishry
(Interpreted from Arabic by Mustafa Okon-Briggs)