2.4.2.9 - Mutual Benefits in Education and Findings - 586/1190

Nevertheless, and as we also mentioned in section [ref:sss] above, the relationship of Shaykh Muhyiddin with his shaykhs was a mutual benefit and not only the general relationship between a seeker and his Shaykh. Therefore, he was a student and a teacher at the same time, because Shaykh Muhyiddin has advanced to the opening without going through any long contemplation we mentioned above. So he reached the ranks of shaykhs and teachers even in his early stages as a seeker [Futuhat: I.616].

We shall see in Chapter IV, that before he leaves Andalusia and Maghreb seeking for the East, Shaykh Muhyiddin will visit his Shaykh Yusuf al-Kumi in the southern Moroccan city of Salأ©, and he may have gone there specifically to bid him farewell, because he was raised by him, even before he entered the Way of Sufism, and so he considers him as one of his prime shaykhs, although his first Shaykh was Abu al-Abbas al-Ureybi was shall see in the following.