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I seen better
financial arrangements to assist a scholar to provide for his children.
In due course I entered Damascus, and there I remained for nearly two years with no other occupation
than the cultivation of retirement and solitude, together with religious and abstinent exercises,
as I busied
myself purifying my soul, improving my character and cleansing my heart with the constant
recollection of
Allah Most High, as I had learned from my study of mysticism. I used to go into retreat for a
period in the
mosque of Damascus, going up the minaret of the mosque for the whole day and shutting myself in so
as to
be alone.
At length I made my way from Damascus to the Holy House (that is, Jerusalem). There I used to enter
into the precinct of the Rock every day and shut myself in.
financial arrangements to assist a scholar to provide for his children.
In due course I entered Damascus, and there I remained for nearly two years with no other occupation
than the cultivation of retirement and solitude, together with religious and abstinent exercises,
as I busied
myself purifying my soul, improving my character and cleansing my heart with the constant
recollection of
Allah Most High, as I had learned from my study of mysticism. I used to go into retreat for a
period in the
mosque of Damascus, going up the minaret of the mosque for the whole day and shutting myself in so
as to
be alone.
At length I made my way from Damascus to the Holy House (that is, Jerusalem). There I used to enter
into the precinct of the Rock every day and shut myself in.