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Soon, however, Satan would return. `This is a passing mood‟, he would
say; `do not yield to it, for it will quickly disappear; if you comply with it and
leave this influential position, these comfortable and dignified circumstances
where you are free from troubles and disturbances, this state of safety and
security where you are untouched by the contentions of your adversaries,
then you will probably come to yourself again and will not find it easy to return


to all this‟.

For nearly six months beginning with Rajab 488 A.H. (⁼July 1095 A.D.), I
was continuously tossed about between the attractions of worldly desires and
the impulses towards eternal life. In that month the matter ceased to be one
of choice and became one of compulsion. Allah caused my tongue to dry up
so that I was prevented from lecturing. One particular day I would make an
effort to lecture in order to gratify the hearts of my following, but my tongue
would not utter a single word nor could I accomplish anything at all.

This impediment in my speech produced grief in my heart, and at the