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whether you can attain yet a still higher type of Divine Mercy. If so, try by all means to
achieve it and do not be satisfied with the portion which has already been given to you.
If you are able to receive more through firmness, then you will be among the owners of
stations and ranks. Thus you will attain to a higher and even higher stages of Divine
mercy, until you are enriched with a wealth after conformably in which there is no
poverty.
Hadrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz reached all that he wished for or expected by living up to
this ideal of contentment. He was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what
he ate, nor about the texture and color of his clothes. All forms of pride were taken away
from him and he was fully convinced of that it was possible for a man to live in a palace
without guards and embroidered clothes, without torches and other such articles of
ostentation.
We have bodies and senses like animals, but we have reason, intelligence and insight
which bring one near to Allah. There are three quite diverse types of men. There is the
person who has little or no interest in this world, which is a place of voluptuous
and
sensual enjoyment, for he believes that man should rid himself of the desires of the
achieve it and do not be satisfied with the portion which has already been given to you.
If you are able to receive more through firmness, then you will be among the owners of
stations and ranks. Thus you will attain to a higher and even higher stages of Divine
mercy, until you are enriched with a wealth after conformably in which there is no
poverty.
Hadrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz reached all that he wished for or expected by living up to
this ideal of contentment. He was not fond of building houses, nor curious about what
he ate, nor about the texture and color of his clothes. All forms of pride were taken away
from him and he was fully convinced of that it was possible for a man to live in a palace
without guards and embroidered clothes, without torches and other such articles of
ostentation.
We have bodies and senses like animals, but we have reason, intelligence and insight
which bring one near to Allah. There are three quite diverse types of men. There is the
person who has little or no interest in this world, which is a place of voluptuous
and
sensual enjoyment, for he believes that man should rid himself of the desires of the