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When you turn to the very innermost, deepest consciousness of your real self you have
a perception of indwelling in Allah within you. Now you realize that to turn inward to the
light within yourself is to live in the presence of Allah or your divine self. Soon you
discover the unreality of objects which used to divert and consume you, and when your
self moves the heart in search of an object or an enjoyment of your desire, and that the
heart responded to these demands with neither a command from Allah nor His
permission, that the result is forgetfulness of Allah and sin. Allah seizes them (the mind
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and heart) with ignominy, calamity and subjection to people, also with injury, anxiety,
pain and disease. Therefore, you should open your eyes and look into the future and
find out what good deeds you have done for tomorrow. Remember, none is more
sympathetically inclined towards you than your own heart. Think deeply for a minute or
two and decide what it is that you run after. Perhaps you are dissatisfied with that
which
is assigned to you from the universe, and you want to found a city. If so, ponder upon:
"How many a town have We laid in ruin!" Koran, Chapter 7 verse 4.
a perception of indwelling in Allah within you. Now you realize that to turn inward to the
light within yourself is to live in the presence of Allah or your divine self. Soon you
discover the unreality of objects which used to divert and consume you, and when your
self moves the heart in search of an object or an enjoyment of your desire, and that the
heart responded to these demands with neither a command from Allah nor His
permission, that the result is forgetfulness of Allah and sin. Allah seizes them (the mind
45
and heart) with ignominy, calamity and subjection to people, also with injury, anxiety,
pain and disease. Therefore, you should open your eyes and look into the future and
find out what good deeds you have done for tomorrow. Remember, none is more
sympathetically inclined towards you than your own heart. Think deeply for a minute or
two and decide what it is that you run after. Perhaps you are dissatisfied with that
which
is assigned to you from the universe, and you want to found a city. If so, ponder upon:
"How many a town have We laid in ruin!" Koran, Chapter 7 verse 4.