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necessity,
from reasons which I do not enumerate, partly immediate experience, partly demonstrative
knowledge,
partly acceptance in faith, to a realization of various truths.
I saw that man was constituted of body and heart; by „heart‟ I mean the real nature of his spirit
which is
the seat of his knowledge of Allah, and not the flesh and blood which he shares with the corpse and
the
brute beast. I saw that just as there is health and disease in the body, respectively causing it to
prosper and
to perish, so also there is in the heart, on the one hand, health and soundness, and `only he who
comes to
Allah with a sound heart‟ (Koran 26, 89) is saved, and, on the other hand, disease, which is
eternal and
other worldly destruction, as Allah Most High says, `in their hearts is disease‟ (Koran 2, 9). I
saw that to be
ignorant of Allah is destructive poison, and to disobey Him by following desire is the thing which
produces
from reasons which I do not enumerate, partly immediate experience, partly demonstrative
knowledge,
partly acceptance in faith, to a realization of various truths.
I saw that man was constituted of body and heart; by „heart‟ I mean the real nature of his spirit
which is
the seat of his knowledge of Allah, and not the flesh and blood which he shares with the corpse and
the
brute beast. I saw that just as there is health and disease in the body, respectively causing it to
prosper and
to perish, so also there is in the heart, on the one hand, health and soundness, and `only he who
comes to
Allah with a sound heart‟ (Koran 26, 89) is saved, and, on the other hand, disease, which is
eternal and
other worldly destruction, as Allah Most High says, `in their hearts is disease‟ (Koran 2, 9). I
saw that to be
ignorant of Allah is destructive poison, and to disobey Him by following desire is the thing which
produces