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Al-Wasiti's Doctrine of the Ten Stations of the Soul in Kashf al-Mahjub
In this section of Kashf al-Mahjub, Hujwiri transmits the teaching of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti that souls (arwah) subsist in ten ranks or stations (مقامات), ordered by their spiritual condition — for example, the souls of the sincere held captive in darkness, the souls of the pious dwelling joyfully in the heavens of this world by the inheritance of their deeds, the souls of the disciples, and so on. Hujwiri frames the soul-body relation with the analogy that the soul in the body is like fire in wood or a live coal: the fire is created (مخلوق) and the wood is fabricated (مصنوع), so that pre-eternity (قدم) belongs to nothing but the essence and attributes of God. This distinguishes the specific ten-station schema of Section 37 from the general discourse on the spirit in Section 36.
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