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by devils. If a disease takes root in one's heart, it can only be treated by one who is an
enemy towards his self. Intellectual cure is more important than physical treatment.
They alone are immune from spiritual ailments who are possessed of pure hearts.
There are two kinds of medicines suggested for the treatment of the heart. The first
consists in remembering death and meditating upon it always, taking into account the
dreadful end of fallen kings, and the worshippers of wealth -- how they amassed
immense riches, built magnificent palaces and wasted their lives in pride and hypocrisy
until death walked silently towards them turning their palaces into graveyards,
obliterating all trace of the pomp and grandeur which was once theirs. "Is it not a
guidance to them, how many generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling
places they walk? Surely, in this there are signs for those of reason." Koran, Chapter 20
verse 128.
Their palaces and houses which now lie in ruins tell their story, and again there are
others who have disappeared even from fables.
The second medicine prescribed for healing the human heart is to meditate deeply upon
enemy towards his self. Intellectual cure is more important than physical treatment.
They alone are immune from spiritual ailments who are possessed of pure hearts.
There are two kinds of medicines suggested for the treatment of the heart. The first
consists in remembering death and meditating upon it always, taking into account the
dreadful end of fallen kings, and the worshippers of wealth -- how they amassed
immense riches, built magnificent palaces and wasted their lives in pride and hypocrisy
until death walked silently towards them turning their palaces into graveyards,
obliterating all trace of the pomp and grandeur which was once theirs. "Is it not a
guidance to them, how many generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling
places they walk? Surely, in this there are signs for those of reason." Koran, Chapter 20
verse 128.
Their palaces and houses which now lie in ruins tell their story, and again there are
others who have disappeared even from fables.
The second medicine prescribed for healing the human heart is to meditate deeply upon