“Imam Sayyidi Noorud Din Abu al-Hasan Ali Shatnufi writes in his renowned book, Bahjat al-Asrar:
“Abu Muhammad Abd al-Salam bin Abi Abdillah Muhammad bin Abd al-Salam bin Ibrahim bin Abd al-Salam al-Basari, originally from Baghdad and resides in Cairo (771 A.H.) says that Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Sulayman al-Baghdadi al-Khabbaz (633 A.H.) has informed that our two teachers, Shaykh Abu al-Qasim Umar bin Mas’ud and Abu Hafs Umar Kamimati Alaihim ar-raHmah stated (591 A.H.):
Our Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu used to walk in the midair above the heads of the people, present in the gathering. He would say that the sun would not rise except that it would greet me. The New Year would appear to me and would tell me all that which was to happen in that year. The new week would come to me and tell me as to what will happen during that week also a new day would come and do the same. I swear by the Dignity of my Lord! All the goodness and badness are presented to me and my eyes are fixed on the al-Lahw al-Mahfuz (The Divine Tablet). I am always diving in the sea of the Knowledge of Allah and His Mushahadah. I am your witness in the court of Allah Almighty and I am the heir of the Prophet and his Inheritor in this world.”
— Bahjat al-Asrar, The description on Kalimat Akhbara Biha ‘An Nafsihi, (Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, Beirut), Page 30