Muslims; for this is part of religion and righteous deeds.
As for “the first category,” which concerns religion alone, it includes those who have no need of the second and derive no benefit from it. Such is the case with many of the Companions, the Successors, and the righteous Muslims, their scholars, and their devoted worshippers—although they must have some need for, or benefit from, certain extraordinary events. Some of them may neither employ the means relating to created affairs nor act upon them. The absence of an extraordinary event in creation in a person’s case is therefore due either to the absence of its cause or to the absence of any benefit in it.
Its absence because it would bring no benefit is not a deficiency. Its absence because its cause is lacking, however, may or may not be a deficiency. If this results from his failure to perform an obligation or refrain from something forbidden, then the absence of the extraordinary event is a deficiency, and this is a cause of harm. If it results from his neglect of recommended acts, it is a deficiency relative to the rank of those who are foremost and brought near to Allah, but not relative to the rank of those of the right who follow a moderate course.
If neither is the case, and he has simply not pursued a means relating to created affairs whose absence does not diminish his reward, then this is no deficiency. An example is someone whose child falls ill or whose wealth is lost, yet he does not supplicate for his child’s recovery or the return of his wealth; or someone whom an oppressor wrongs, yet he does not direct his spiritual resolve against him to prevail over him.
As for “the second category,” namely, the person endowed with disclosure of the unseen and influence over creation, it has already been explained that this may sometimes enhance his religious standing, sometimes diminish it, and sometimes count neither for nor against him. This is the predominant state of those devoted to seeking help, just as the first is the predominant state of those devoted to worship.