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animal, but the intelligent motion claims superiority and does not permit itself to be
overpowered by others. When man is free from the bondage of desires relating to this
world and the next he would see Allah with his own eyes and so be connected with Him.
Those who love Allah for the sake of Paradise are not among his friends or the auliya,
for they worship Him not for the sake of pure love, but for His bounty, like people who
worship kings and viziers for the sake of their favors.
As Allah has blessed you with knowledge and enlightenment I beseech you to seek
your Lord through the two channels of Koran and Sunnah, so that you may attain the
position of the wisest. Meanwhile, I must warn you again against falling into the trap of
the mirage of life, where your thirsty soul would find nothing and you would suffer a
great deal. Those who respond to the world with their senses report to them and seem
to care little about intrinsic values or have little or no interest in things beyond the world
of sense are unconscious of the ascendant realities because they are careless and
ignorant and their lust over-powers them to seek an extent that they have no time to
meditate upon transcendent Realities.
There are two reasons for their refraining from traversing the path towards the good of
life. They are, firstly, that they are slaves to their passions and cannot part with the
overpowered by others. When man is free from the bondage of desires relating to this
world and the next he would see Allah with his own eyes and so be connected with Him.
Those who love Allah for the sake of Paradise are not among his friends or the auliya,
for they worship Him not for the sake of pure love, but for His bounty, like people who
worship kings and viziers for the sake of their favors.
As Allah has blessed you with knowledge and enlightenment I beseech you to seek
your Lord through the two channels of Koran and Sunnah, so that you may attain the
position of the wisest. Meanwhile, I must warn you again against falling into the trap of
the mirage of life, where your thirsty soul would find nothing and you would suffer a
great deal. Those who respond to the world with their senses report to them and seem
to care little about intrinsic values or have little or no interest in things beyond the world
of sense are unconscious of the ascendant realities because they are careless and
ignorant and their lust over-powers them to seek an extent that they have no time to
meditate upon transcendent Realities.
There are two reasons for their refraining from traversing the path towards the good of
life. They are, firstly, that they are slaves to their passions and cannot part with the