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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 106
Medina
7[9] Literally, the `prohibition’, tahrim; the opening words of the Muslim Worship, `God is
great’, are known
as takbirat al-tahrim, the prohibitory adoration, `because it forbids to the worshipper what
was previously
allowable’. Cf. Calverley, Worship in Islam, p. 8, etc.
leading to it. Those to whom it is not granted to have immediate experience can become assured of
it by
trial and contact with mystics or observation of them and by hearsay, if they have
sufficiently numerous
opportunities of associating with mystics to understand that ecstasy with certainty by
means of what
accompanies the „states‟. Whoever sits in their company derives from them this faith; and none who
sits in
their company is pained.
7[9] Literally, the `prohibition’, tahrim; the opening words of the Muslim Worship, `God is
great’, are known
as takbirat al-tahrim, the prohibitory adoration, `because it forbids to the worshipper what
was previously
allowable’. Cf. Calverley, Worship in Islam, p. 8, etc.
leading to it. Those to whom it is not granted to have immediate experience can become assured of
it by
trial and contact with mystics or observation of them and by hearsay, if they have
sufficiently numerous
opportunities of associating with mystics to understand that ecstasy with certainty by
means of what
accompanies the „states‟. Whoever sits in their company derives from them this faith; and none who
sits in
their company is pained.