The Two Classes Of Men

According to Al-Hujwiri, Abu 'L-Sari Mansur b. Ammar belonged to the school of Iraq but was also acceptable to the people of Khorasan. It is related that he said: "There are two classes of men: those who have need of God--and they hold the highest rank from the standpoint of the sacred law--and those who pay no regard to their need of God, because they know that God has provided for their creation and livelihood and death and life and happiness and misery: they need God alone, and having him are independent of all else."

Al-Hujwiri comments: "The former, through seeing their own need, are veiled from seeing the Divine providence, whereas the latter, through not seeing their own need, are unveiled and independent. The former enjoy felicity, but the latter enjoy the Giver of felicity."

[Nicholson's translation of Kashf al-Mahjub, 127].

Among the "unveiled and independent" are Sa'adi and Hafez.

And so the red dervish enters through the blue door, leaving his mark at the threshold.