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I apprehended clearly that the mystics were men who had real experiences, not men of words, and
that I
had already progressed as far as was possible by way of intellectual apprehension. What remained
for me
was not to be attained by oral instruction and study but only by immediate experience and by
walking in the
mystic way.

Now from the sciences I had labored at and the paths I had traversed in my investigation of the
revelation
and rational sciences, there had come to me a sure faith in Allah most high, in prophethood, and in
the Last
Day. These three creedal principles were firmly rooted in my being, not through any carefully
argued proofs,
but by reason of various causes, coincidences and experiences which are not capable of being
stated in
detail.