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The Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said to Imam Ali: "If other people
seek salvation through good deeds seek entering into union with them through your
knowledge of good and evil." He said this as he knew that the seekers of Allah are like
those possessed of knowledge of Kimia - a precious metal upon the mere touch of
which solid things turn into gold - and those who seek Allah through good deeds are
like the people who have some money to support them for a few days. It may be
explained that with enlightenment and knowledge, men seek to illumine their surrounds
with the light proceeding from All in the midst of the darkness of destiny, and hold fast to
the injunctions and prohibitions of Allah and traverse under the direction provided by the
Koran and Sunnah, the path towards their Lord. They renounce pleasure, wealth and
power all of which are the general objects of human ambition that entail suffering. One
of their ambitions is to make their souls a stainless mirror for Allah and to crucify every
thing that hinders the incoming of Divine illumination.
It is the peculiar office of national and intelligent motion to circumscribe itself and never
to be overpowered either by the motion of the senses or of the appetites for both are
The Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said to Imam Ali: "If other people
seek salvation through good deeds seek entering into union with them through your
knowledge of good and evil." He said this as he knew that the seekers of Allah are like
those possessed of knowledge of Kimia - a precious metal upon the mere touch of
which solid things turn into gold - and those who seek Allah through good deeds are
like the people who have some money to support them for a few days. It may be
explained that with enlightenment and knowledge, men seek to illumine their surrounds
with the light proceeding from All in the midst of the darkness of destiny, and hold fast to
the injunctions and prohibitions of Allah and traverse under the direction provided by the
Koran and Sunnah, the path towards their Lord. They renounce pleasure, wealth and
power all of which are the general objects of human ambition that entail suffering. One
of their ambitions is to make their souls a stainless mirror for Allah and to crucify every
thing that hinders the incoming of Divine illumination.
It is the peculiar office of national and intelligent motion to circumscribe itself and never
to be overpowered either by the motion of the senses or of the appetites for both are