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now live the simple, austere life of the poorest fakir. My want is but little and I always
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have a little of what I want. It was in this way that when external causes came he was
free from being perturbed and there was justice in the things done by the virtues of the
internal cause. He ceased to be held by either pain or pleasures, which are as much
inferior as that which is to be served by them is superior, for the former are loose and
corrupt and the latter is intelligence and piety.
Man is given a limited will, it depends upon him. Either he identifies his being with his
selfness and its interests, or throws aside his selfness and thereby identifies himself
exclusively with the Divine within and without. This is the path of enlightenment.
Allah has raised you to the high rank of the premiership of the Seljuq empire. The time
has now come when you should wish for a rank higher than this. When you reach it and
feel satisfied with it, it is then that you will be transferred from this stage to another
which is higher than this. It is then that you will be turned towards a rank which is more
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have a little of what I want. It was in this way that when external causes came he was
free from being perturbed and there was justice in the things done by the virtues of the
internal cause. He ceased to be held by either pain or pleasures, which are as much
inferior as that which is to be served by them is superior, for the former are loose and
corrupt and the latter is intelligence and piety.
Man is given a limited will, it depends upon him. Either he identifies his being with his
selfness and its interests, or throws aside his selfness and thereby identifies himself
exclusively with the Divine within and without. This is the path of enlightenment.
Allah has raised you to the high rank of the premiership of the Seljuq empire. The time
has now come when you should wish for a rank higher than this. When you reach it and
feel satisfied with it, it is then that you will be transferred from this stage to another
which is higher than this. It is then that you will be turned towards a rank which is more