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I apprehended clearly that the mystics were men who had real
experiences, not men of words, and that I had already progressed as far as
was possible by way of intellectual apprehension. What remained for me
was not to be attained by oral instruction and study but only by immediate
experience and by walking in the mystic way.

Now from the sciences I had labored at and the paths I had traversed in
my investigation of the revelation and rational sciences, there had come to
me a sure faith in Allah most high, in prophethood, and in the Last Day.
These three creedal principles were firmly rooted in my being, not through
any carefully argued proofs, but by reason of various causes, coincidences
and experiences which are not capable of being stated in detail.

It had already become clear to me that I had no hope of the bliss of the
world to come save through an Allah-fearing life and the withdrawal of
myself from vain desire. It was clear to me too that the key to all this was to
sever the attachment of the heart to worldly things by leaving the mansion
of deception and returning to that of eternity, and to advance towards Allah