Muhammad el Ghali, a prominent companion of al-Tijani’s, noted to him that Abdul Qadir Jilani had said a similar sentence, to which al-Tijani replied, "He was perfectly right to say such a thing, but he was talking about the saints of his time, as for me, I repeat it again: My two feet that you can see here, have never ceased being on the nape of the neck of every saint."