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flesh and cast away his earthly limitations and worldly trappings. Whosoever sets the
religious trap of artfulness against the world shall thereby capture hope for being among
those who fear Allah. Although this sort of renunciation is not of the superior type, yet
people belonging to the category will achieve salvation.
The other type of man has unveiled before him the picture of abstract beauty in which is
manifested the splendor of His Name, the Exalted, that is resplendent in all creation
through various phenomena. He, therefore abandons the struggle in the narrow straits
of the lower regions of this world and rises through his energy to the higher plane. He
can never be content with biological existence. That is why he does not respond to the
world which his senses report to him, but instead he exclusively confines himself to the
other world. As he is more responsive to another realm of Beauty, he seems from the
first glance to have come with trailing clouds of glory from Allah, and is aware that he
belongs to the father land of the spirit.
The third type of man is one who has stripped himself of all property and pleasures,
either of this world or the next, for the sake of his Lord. He understands the logic
behind. "Allah is Best and Eternal!" He maintains that so long as any desire from among
the desires of this world and that of the world beyond continues to disturb his heart in
religious trap of artfulness against the world shall thereby capture hope for being among
those who fear Allah. Although this sort of renunciation is not of the superior type, yet
people belonging to the category will achieve salvation.
The other type of man has unveiled before him the picture of abstract beauty in which is
manifested the splendor of His Name, the Exalted, that is resplendent in all creation
through various phenomena. He, therefore abandons the struggle in the narrow straits
of the lower regions of this world and rises through his energy to the higher plane. He
can never be content with biological existence. That is why he does not respond to the
world which his senses report to him, but instead he exclusively confines himself to the
other world. As he is more responsive to another realm of Beauty, he seems from the
first glance to have come with trailing clouds of glory from Allah, and is aware that he
belongs to the father land of the spirit.
The third type of man is one who has stripped himself of all property and pleasures,
either of this world or the next, for the sake of his Lord. He understands the logic
behind. "Allah is Best and Eternal!" He maintains that so long as any desire from among
the desires of this world and that of the world beyond continues to disturb his heart in