2.7.1.2 - Macroscopic and Biological Quantum Tunneling

In Marchena, the Greatest Shaykh visited its Orator Abdul Majid Ibn Salamah, whom he calls hims as a friend and brother in God, and he described him as a serious and diligent man [Futuhat: I.277-278]. One of the strange stories told by Abdul Majid that he was at home one night, so he rose up to his prayer and contemplation, and while he is standing in his chapel and the door of the house and all other doors are locked, he saw that someone has entered to him from nowhere, which made him shocked, but then this person said to him: O Abdul Majid, do not try to frighten, that who is affable by God should not panic!

Then he asked the man, Sir, by virtue of what attainments do the Substitutes hold their position? He replied, By the four which Abu Talib al-Makki mentioned in his Sustenance of the Hearts: Qإ¬t al-Qulإ¬b, namely: hunger, wakefulness, silence and seclusion. Shaykh Muhyiddin discussed these attainments in Chapter 53 of The Meccan Revelations as well in a dedicated book called ؤ¤ilyat al-Abdaal: The Adornment of the Substitutes, (RG 237) that he wrote in an hour during a visit to Taif, near Mecca, in 599/1203.

Then this man took Shaykh Abdul-Majid by the hand and, leaving the house, took him during the space of that night to visit various places on Earth, invoking God the while. When the first light came, he returned him to his house and departed. Even after that, he would come to see him from time to time, always at night. The name of his visitant, whom we shall mention in section [ref:al-rondi below, was Muadh Ibn Ashraf al-Rondi who was considered to be one of the Substitutes.

In the Holy Spirit, the Greatest Shaykh explains that Shaykh Abdul-Majid was a man devoted to the Quran and self-discipline. He served Shams, Mother of the Poor. Many of the greatest Shaykhs benefited from her guidance, including Abdullah al-Mawruri, Ahmad Ibn Qaitun and Muadh Ibn Ashraf himself.