Ādem sold the presence of his Lord for a single morsel.... Even if Allah were to make me an intercessor for the first and the last (the earliest and the latest), it would not be such a great thing for me: For in the end, He would have made me an intercessor for a mere morsel of earth.
Ādem... that is, the great Ādem. He is the khalīfa (vicegerent) and the First Intellect. ...He is the nafs (the lower self) of the human species, from which it was created, the wāḥid (the unique one). (Sofyavi, 39)
