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The_Savior_from_Spiritual_Error, page : 101
With this first stage of the `way‟ there begin the revelations and visions.
The mystics in their waking state now behold angels and the spirits of the
prophets; they hear these speaking to them and are instructed by them.
Later, a higher state is reached; instead of beholding forms and figures,
they come to stages in the `way‟ which it is hard to describe in language; if
a man 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.
7[9] Literally, the `prohibition’, tahrim; the opening words of the Muslim Worship, `God is great’,
are known as takbirat al-tahrim, the prohibitory adoration, `because it forbids to the worshipper
The mystics in their waking state now behold angels and the spirits of the
prophets; they hear these speaking to them and are instructed by them.
Later, a higher state is reached; instead of beholding forms and figures,
they come to stages in the `way‟ which it is hard to describe in language; if
a man 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.
7[9] Literally, the `prohibition’, tahrim; the opening words of the Muslim Worship, `God is great’,
are known as takbirat al-tahrim, the prohibitory adoration, `because it forbids to the worshipper