Spiritual Journey from Ibn Atᾱ Iskandarani's point of view

Ibn Atᾱ Iskandarani as a distinguished Sufi was the first author, organizer and promoter of Shazeli school of Sufism in Egypt. In order to reach to the "knowledge of God", he called his disciples in spiritual journey to reject any resourcefulness, "self-acting", solitude, hermitage, reciting and pass the spiritual degrees. There are some similarities and differences between the teachings of Ibn atᾱ and other mystics about his ninefold spiritual status, namely: Repentance, Piety, Patience, Thanksgiving, Fear, Hope, Acquiescence, Reliance (on God), and Love. There are some reasons for these differences that we can find them by analyzing Attar's and Kalabadi's works about mysticism, such as: diversities between spiritual principles among various sufi schools, differences between the reports of mystics from their religious experiences, shortness or detail in their expressions…, so that Attar bolded Love in his works, and widespread it in his all seven spiritual degrees but Ibn Atᾱ supposed Piety as the first step and Love as the ultimate step in spirituality while all of them associated by rejecting the resourcefulness. In this regard, rejecting of resourcefulness means that man leaves all of his resourcefulness's to God and thereby its meaning includes "Wilayah" that is a degree in which the wayfarer because of reaching to the degree of Fana (disappearing in front of God) and Marefah (Knowledge) becomes omnipresence and undertakes resourcefulness of the world by God's permission, while God himself is the original manager. These are the marks that we can pursuit the footprints of Willayah in his thoughts.