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„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
acceptance of it as probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith
(iman). These are three degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have
faith and those who have been given knowledge in degrees of honor‟
(Koran 58, 12).
Behind the mystics, however, there is a crowd of ignorant people. They
deny this fundamentally, they are astonished at this line of thought, they
listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What nonsense they talk!‟ About
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
acceptance of it as probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith
(iman). These are three degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have
faith and those who have been given knowledge in degrees of honor‟
(Koran 58, 12).
Behind the mystics, however, there is a crowd of ignorant people. They
deny this fundamentally, they are astonished at this line of thought, they
listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What nonsense they talk!‟ About