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Lord, and worshipped, so that the Bedouin said, „Muhammad loves his Lord
passionately‟.
Now this is a mystical ‟state‟ which is realized in immediate experience by
those who walk in the way leading to it. Those to whom it is not granted to
have immediate experience can become assured of it by trial and contact
with mystics or observation of them and by hearsay, if they have sufficiently
numerous opportunities of associating with mystics to understand that
ecstasy with certainty by means of what accompanies the „states‟. Whoever
sits in their company derives from them this faith; and none who sits in their
company is pained.
Those to whom it is not even granted to have contact with mystics may
know with certainty the possibility of ecstasy by the evidence of
demonstration, as I have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders of the
Heart of my Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual
acquaintance with that state‟ is immediate experience (Thawq); the
passionately‟.
Now this is a mystical ‟state‟ which is realized in immediate experience by
those who walk in the way leading to it. Those to whom it is not granted to
have immediate experience can become assured of it by trial and contact
with mystics or observation of them and by hearsay, if they have sufficiently
numerous opportunities of associating with mystics to understand that
ecstasy with certainty by means of what accompanies the „states‟. Whoever
sits in their company derives from them this faith; and none who sits in their
company is pained.
Those to whom it is not even granted to have contact with mystics may
know with certainty the possibility of ecstasy by the evidence of
demonstration, as I have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders of the
Heart of my Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual
acquaintance with that state‟ is immediate experience (Thawq); the