“Time” (_waqt_) is used by Muḥammadan mystics to denote the spiritual state in which anyone finds himself, and by which he is dominated at the moment. The expression _`ilm-i waqt_ occurs again in the notice of Abú Sulaymán al-Dárání (chapter x, No. 17), where _waqt_ is explained as meaning “the preservation of one’s spiritual state”. According to a definition given by Sahl b. `Abdallah al-Tustarí, _waqt_ is “search for knowledge of the state, i.e. the decision (_ḥukm_) of a man’s state, which exists between him and God in this world and hereafter”. The Knowledge of the Truth (_Ḥaqíqat_) has three pillars— (1) Knowledge of the Essence and Unity of God. (2) Knowledge of the Attributes of God. (3) Knowledge of the Actions and Wisdom of God. The Knowledge of the Law (_Sharí`at_) also has three pillars— (1) The Koran. (2) The Sunna. (3) The Consensus (_ijmá`_) of the Moslem community. Knowledge of the Divine Essence involves recognition, on the part of one who is reasonable and has reached puberty, that God exists externally by His essence, that He is infinite and not bounded by space, that His essence is not the cause of evil, that none of His creatures is like unto Him, that He has neither wife nor child, and that He is the Creator and Sustainer of all that your imagination and intellect can conceive. Knowledge of the Divine Attributes requires you to know that God has attributes existing in Himself, which are not He nor a part of Him, but exist in Him and subsist by Him, e.g. Knowledge, Power, Life, Will, Hearing, Sight, Speech, etc. Knowledge of the Divine Actions is your knowledge that God is the Creator of mankind and of all their actions, that He brought the non-existent universe into being, that He predestines good and evil and creates all that is beneficial and injurious. Knowledge of the Law involves your knowing that God has sent us Apostles with miracles of an extraordinary nature; that our Apostle, Muḥammad (on whom be peace!), is a true Messenger, who performed many miracles, and that whatever he has told us concerning the Unseen and the Visible is entirely true. SECTION.