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what was previously allowable’. Cf. Calverley, Worship in Islam, p. 8, etc.
(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 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
(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 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