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He is a man enveloped in a radiant Divine light, obedient to his heavenly vision and
possessed of that inspiring trait of personality which makes his life count for much more
than his words. He does not teach out of books, but out of his own heart's experience
and makes it a little easier for ordinary people through his help to live a good life. He
has accompanied me for nearly twenty years during my extensive travels through Tus,
Nishapur, Baghdad, Syria and the Hejaz, where I taught more than one thousand
disciples. I have learned more from his conversation than any other man ever taught
me. His facile tongue has illuminated the whole world and his life conforms perfectly
with the truths which he preaches. I believe, if there were only one true friend of Allah in
a country, or among a people as Ibrahim Mubarak is, that the entire country, or nation, if
it followed the counsels of such a man would be preserved from the calamities that are
to smite the world. Meantime his own boldness of thought and speech have brought him
under suspicion on the part of some of the guardians of orthodoxy and charges of
heretical teachings have been leveled against him, but, it is only because of his nobility
and piety. Some of the influential, but ignorant Mullahs, of course, have turned against
him and he is scorned and hated. Consequently he has withdrawn into a quiet retreat to
heal the wounds which the world has inflicted upon him.
I earnestly entreat and humbly pray that you should take good care of him and draw him
possessed of that inspiring trait of personality which makes his life count for much more
than his words. He does not teach out of books, but out of his own heart's experience
and makes it a little easier for ordinary people through his help to live a good life. He
has accompanied me for nearly twenty years during my extensive travels through Tus,
Nishapur, Baghdad, Syria and the Hejaz, where I taught more than one thousand
disciples. I have learned more from his conversation than any other man ever taught
me. His facile tongue has illuminated the whole world and his life conforms perfectly
with the truths which he preaches. I believe, if there were only one true friend of Allah in
a country, or among a people as Ibrahim Mubarak is, that the entire country, or nation, if
it followed the counsels of such a man would be preserved from the calamities that are
to smite the world. Meantime his own boldness of thought and speech have brought him
under suspicion on the part of some of the guardians of orthodoxy and charges of
heretical teachings have been leveled against him, but, it is only because of his nobility
and piety. Some of the influential, but ignorant Mullahs, of course, have turned against
him and he is scorned and hated. Consequently he has withdrawn into a quiet retreat to
heal the wounds which the world has inflicted upon him.
I earnestly entreat and humbly pray that you should take good care of him and draw him