Kutb
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In Islam the kutb (or qutb) is seen as the chief center of spiritual influence and the most pre-eminent of Allah's saints on earth. Every 200 years the kutb changes, and there may only be one kutb at a time. Each kutb influences knowledge according to the times and is the pillar of the faith upon earth, the axis of the faith. According to other beliefs, no one knows whether the Kutb are one man, or two men, or four men; they have the supervision of all the saints alive on earth, and are more powerful than kings, though they look like ordinary men. They are often seen yet almost never recognized, and they travel over the earth, mildly reproving the impious and hypocritical.
Each kutb is said to have three assistants who are called kutb ul-aktab, or scribes.
Kutb is also the term used in the ceremony of the dancing dervish. At the end of their ceremony a reciter, the shaikh moves to the centre of the dancers' cirkle, also the centre of the hall, which is called the kutb.
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