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outlawed garments, showing contempt to people by being vain and ostentatious,
meddling in the affairs of others, talkativeness, the disappearance of awe, fear
and mercy from the heart, absentmindedness to an extent that the worshiper
would no longer be aware of what he prayed, or read, or who had communed
with him during the prayer.
Chapter Five
On the Proprieties of the Student and the Teacher
The formal proprieties and duties of the student are many but may be classified
under ten headings.
The first duty of the student is to purify his soul from impure traits and
blameworthy characteristics because knowledge is the worship of man‟s heart as
well as the prayer of his inmost self (sirr) and the oblation of his inward being
before Allah. Just as prayer, which is the duty of the physical senses, is not
fulfilled unless the physical body has been purified from excrements and
impurities, so is the worship of the inward being as well as the reformation of the
meddling in the affairs of others, talkativeness, the disappearance of awe, fear
and mercy from the heart, absentmindedness to an extent that the worshiper
would no longer be aware of what he prayed, or read, or who had communed
with him during the prayer.
Chapter Five
On the Proprieties of the Student and the Teacher
The formal proprieties and duties of the student are many but may be classified
under ten headings.
The first duty of the student is to purify his soul from impure traits and
blameworthy characteristics because knowledge is the worship of man‟s heart as
well as the prayer of his inmost self (sirr) and the oblation of his inward being
before Allah. Just as prayer, which is the duty of the physical senses, is not
fulfilled unless the physical body has been purified from excrements and
impurities, so is the worship of the inward being as well as the reformation of the