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constitute ocean depths in which the majority drown and only a minority reach
safety. Each separate group thinks as the Koran indicates, that it alone is
saved, and `each party is rejoicing in what they have‟ (Koran 23, 55; 30:32).
This is what was promised by the master of the Messengers the praise and
veneration of Allah upon him, for he is the truthful and trustworthy, when he
said,
“My nation will be split up into seventy-three sects, and only one of them is
saved”
Which was reported by Ahmed, Abu Dawud, Ibn Maja, and Tirmithi. And
what he foretold has indeed come about.
From my early youth, since I attained the age of puberty before I was twenty,
until the present time when I am over fifty, I have ever recklessly launched
out into the midst of these ocean depths, I have ever bravely embarked on
this open sea, throwing aside all craven caution; I have poked into every dark
safety. Each separate group thinks as the Koran indicates, that it alone is
saved, and `each party is rejoicing in what they have‟ (Koran 23, 55; 30:32).
This is what was promised by the master of the Messengers the praise and
veneration of Allah upon him, for he is the truthful and trustworthy, when he
said,
“My nation will be split up into seventy-three sects, and only one of them is
saved”
Which was reported by Ahmed, Abu Dawud, Ibn Maja, and Tirmithi. And
what he foretold has indeed come about.
From my early youth, since I attained the age of puberty before I was twenty,
until the present time when I am over fifty, I have ever recklessly launched
out into the midst of these ocean depths, I have ever bravely embarked on
this open sea, throwing aside all craven caution; I have poked into every dark