Figure I.3: The (divine) Pedestal and what it contains down to the constellations. This diagram is translated from Ibn Arabi's drawing in chapter 371 [III 423].
The specific names of each of the seven Gardens are taken from related verses in the Qur an and Hadith, and they are different from the Seven Heavens or Skies (samawat) which are, for Ibn Arabi, the same seven celestial spheres where the five known planets plus the moon and the sun are, as shown in Figure I.4 and Figure I.3. The word 'al-Wasila' that twice crosses all the seven Gardens (in Figure I.3) corresponds to 'the highest level in (the highest Garden of) Eden, and it belongs (specifically) to the Messenger (Muhammed) of Allah' [I.319.14, also see I.658.30]. It is also known as 'al-maqam al-mahmud' ('the commendable station'), and it was called 'al-Wasila' ('the Intermediary', or 'the Way (of Approach to Allah)') because 'through It Allah may be approached' [II.87.9].