The Meaning of Sainthood [Veli-hood]

What is the meaning of sainthood? Does it mean having soldiers, a crown, and a throne? Perhaps the one who has sainthood in his nafs is a saint. Sainthood is to have sovereignty over one's self, one's states, one's attributes, one's speech, and one's silence. The one whose wrath or grace is appropriate while he is speaking or silent, is a saint. The people of wisdom (anf) don't say, "We are incapable, and He is the Powerful One." You have to become powerful and strong in every attribute, that you might be silent at the time when silence is called for, respond at the moment for response, and show wrath when it is the moment for wrath, and kindness when kindness is appropriate. Otherwise such a person's attributes become a calamity for him or her, and they cause pain because they are not ruled by him, rather they rule over him. A person becomes a ruler, if he is not a slave. --Rumi's Sun: The Teaching of Shams of Tabriz, tr. by Refik Algan and Camille Adams Helminski, Sandpoint, ID: Morning Light Press (2008), 20.