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the blessings of Mecca and Medina, and perform the visitation of the
Messenger of Allah Most High, peace be upon him, after first performing the
visitation of al-Khalil, the Friend of Allah, may Allah praise and give him
peace.⁶ I therefore made the journey to the Hijaz. Before long however,
various concerns, together with the requests of my children, drew me back to
my home (country); and so I came to it again, though at one time no one had
seemed less likely than myself to return to it. Here, too I sought retirement,
still longing for solitude and the purification of the heart for the recollection of
Allah. The events of the interval, the anxieties about my family, and the
necessities of my livelihood altered the aspect of my purpose and impaired
the quality of my solitude, for I experienced pure ecstasy only occasionally,
although I did not cease to hope for itt; obstacles would hold me back, yet I
always returned to it.
I continued at this stage for the space of ten years, and during these
periods of solitude there were revealed to me things innumerable and
unfathomable. This much I shall say about that, in order that others may be
helped: I learned with certainty that it is above all the mystics who walk on the
road of Allah; their life is the best life, their method the soundest method, their
Messenger of Allah Most High, peace be upon him, after first performing the
visitation of al-Khalil, the Friend of Allah, may Allah praise and give him
peace.⁶ I therefore made the journey to the Hijaz. Before long however,
various concerns, together with the requests of my children, drew me back to
my home (country); and so I came to it again, though at one time no one had
seemed less likely than myself to return to it. Here, too I sought retirement,
still longing for solitude and the purification of the heart for the recollection of
Allah. The events of the interval, the anxieties about my family, and the
necessities of my livelihood altered the aspect of my purpose and impaired
the quality of my solitude, for I experienced pure ecstasy only occasionally,
although I did not cease to hope for itt; obstacles would hold me back, yet I
always returned to it.
I continued at this stage for the space of ten years, and during these
periods of solitude there were revealed to me things innumerable and
unfathomable. This much I shall say about that, in order that others may be
helped: I learned with certainty that it is above all the mystics who walk on the
road of Allah; their life is the best life, their method the soundest method, their