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When a man is blessed with such an inspiration and illumination, he finds that the
people of the world run after material objects and are caught up in a dense and baffling
jungle of wild passions, and low desires, and aspirations of the animal-self. He takes to
renunciation and has nothing to long for. He has no worldly ambitions for he believes
that so long as there are desires in the heart, it cannot be cleaned and purified. When
all things other than Allah are effaced and removed from the heart, then alone, the
objective is achieved. Begin to search and dig for your own field for this pearl of spiritual
glory that lies hidden in it. It cannot cost you too much, nor can you buy it to dear, and
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when you have found it, you will know that all which you have sold or given away for it is
a mere nothing, as a bubble upon the water.
People consign their dead parents to the grave and yet they do not take lesson from the
incidents and feel as if they are immortal. They indulge in unlawful things and escape
from the law and join a company of the devils who are the enemies of Allah. So, if death
overtakes them before repentance, they would be certainly among the losers.
people of the world run after material objects and are caught up in a dense and baffling
jungle of wild passions, and low desires, and aspirations of the animal-self. He takes to
renunciation and has nothing to long for. He has no worldly ambitions for he believes
that so long as there are desires in the heart, it cannot be cleaned and purified. When
all things other than Allah are effaced and removed from the heart, then alone, the
objective is achieved. Begin to search and dig for your own field for this pearl of spiritual
glory that lies hidden in it. It cannot cost you too much, nor can you buy it to dear, and
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when you have found it, you will know that all which you have sold or given away for it is
a mere nothing, as a bubble upon the water.
People consign their dead parents to the grave and yet they do not take lesson from the
incidents and feel as if they are immortal. They indulge in unlawful things and escape
from the law and join a company of the devils who are the enemies of Allah. So, if death
overtakes them before repentance, they would be certainly among the losers.