Al-Wālī - He Who Has Charge Over All

Al-Wālī is the one who plans the affairs of mankind and has assumed control of them; that is to say, he is in charge of them, being capable, as he is, of discharging the trust. It would seem that curatorship (Al-wilāyah) suggests planning, power and activity. When all these are not included, one cannot be designated by the name Al-Wālī, and there is no wālī of things except God Most High. First of all, He is without peer in His planning of things; secondly, He is the One responsible for and the One who carries out the planning by actually bringing into effect (everything that was planned); and, thirdly, He is the One who is in charge of them by perpetuating and continuing (all these things that were planned and effected).