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attempts to express these, his words inevitably contain what is clearly
erroneous.
In general what they manage to achieve is nearness to Allah; some,
however, would conceive of this as `inherence‟ (hulul), some as `union‟
(ittihad), and some as `connection‟ (wusul). All that is erroneous. In my book,
The Noblest Aim, I have explained the nature of the error. Yet he who has
attained the mystic `state‟ need do no more than say:
Of the things I do not remember, what was, was;
Think it good; do not ask an account of it.
(Ibn al-Mu‟tazz).
In general the man to whom He has granted no immediate experience at all,
apprehends no more of what prophetic revelation really is than the name. The
miraculous graces given to the saints are in truth the beginnings of the
prophets; and that was the first „state‟ of the Messenger of Allah, peace be
upon him when he went out to Mount Hira‟, and was given up entirely to his
erroneous.
In general what they manage to achieve is nearness to Allah; some,
however, would conceive of this as `inherence‟ (hulul), some as `union‟
(ittihad), and some as `connection‟ (wusul). All that is erroneous. In my book,
The Noblest Aim, I have explained the nature of the error. Yet he who has
attained the mystic `state‟ need do no more than say:
Of the things I do not remember, what was, was;
Think it good; do not ask an account of it.
(Ibn al-Mu‟tazz).
In general the man to whom He has granted no immediate experience at all,
apprehends no more of what prophetic revelation really is than the name. The
miraculous graces given to the saints are in truth the beginnings of the
prophets; and that was the first „state‟ of the Messenger of Allah, peace be
upon him when he went out to Mount Hira‟, and was given up entirely to his