“In sum, then, the Sufi lays claim to an epistemological and hermeneutic authority that is superior to that of the jurists of whom Muḥyi al-Din Ibn ʿArabī once said: “The jurists [al-fuqahā ʾ] in every age have been, and still are, in relation to those who have realized Truth [al-muḥaqqiqūn] at the station of pharaohs in relation to prophets.”58”