A warning to the wayfarers
These things will lead you to hell!
Do not be infatuated with stages of mysticism and miracles; sometimes such things will lead you to hell!
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The cure to all affairs
Without it, the difficulties will never be solved
We must know that our cure in all stages is self-reform, such that we will never be needless of it, and without it, the difficulties of our affairs will never be solved.
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Seeing the effects of deeds
Be watchful of your deeds!
Man should be watchful of his deeds so that he sees their good and bad results.
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The opportunity of reforming our defects
We do not have the time to attend to our own daily vices
With respect to all our vices and reforming them, we do not have the time to attend to our own daily vices, let alone others’.
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First, reforming ourselves
We would not be able to reform others
We must be thinking about ourselves and reform ourselves. If we fail to reform ourselves, we would not be able to reform others.
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Ascent and Descent
Worse than satan and better than angels
Man is worse than satan in his decent and better than angels in his ascent.
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High aspirations
A little spirituality
Those who had a little spirituality did not go after miracles.
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The greatest alchemy
Blessed with spirituality and ma‘rifah
Why would one who is blessed with spirituality and ma‘rifah (cognizance of God) need alchemy?! What alchemy is greater than the cognizance of God?
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Meeting God with the eyes of insight
Meeting God is possible in the Hereafter even in this world
If meeting God is possible in the Hereafter, then so it is even in this world, with the same criterion of possibility; however not with the physical eyes, rather with the eyes of the heart and insight.
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We ourselves are the cause of heedlessness
Muraqabah and muhasabah
We ourselves prepare the causes of danger, heedlessness, and forgetfulness of the remembrance of God almighty. The defects of our acts become apparent as a result of muraqabah (attentive observation) and muhasabah (reckoning).
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