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The profound French thinker and convert Rene Guenon lived in
Egypt for many years and commented, "There is a major
condition in Ihsan and it is that of spiritual impact, or to use a
more accurate word 'blessing'. This blessing does not come
except through a shaykh, and from him comes the linkage,
because the linkage is nothing other than blessings transferred
from the shaykh to the novice who in turn will become a shaykh
and have an impact on novices. Ihsan is not the research of
scientific words, nor can it be taught through books according to a
curriculum even that written by the grand shaykhs of the science
of Ihsan. The benefit of such books is for the sake of
encouragement, to strengthen one's contemplation, and one must
be aware that no one can advance by just reading these books,
they have to be understood and explained by those with the ability
to understand."
The profound French thinker and convert Rene Guenon lived in
Egypt for many years and commented, "There is a major
condition in Ihsan and it is that of spiritual impact, or to use a
more accurate word 'blessing'. This blessing does not come
except through a shaykh, and from him comes the linkage,
because the linkage is nothing other than blessings transferred
from the shaykh to the novice who in turn will become a shaykh
and have an impact on novices. Ihsan is not the research of
scientific words, nor can it be taught through books according to a
curriculum even that written by the grand shaykhs of the science
of Ihsan. The benefit of such books is for the sake of
encouragement, to strengthen one's contemplation, and one must
be aware that no one can advance by just reading these books,
they have to be understood and explained by those with the ability
to understand."