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Behind the mystics, however, there is a crowd of ignorant people. They
deny this fundamentally, they are astonished at this line of thought, they
listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What nonsense they talk!‟ About
such people Allah Most High has said: „Some of them listen to you, until,
upon going out from you, they say to those to whom knowledge has been
given, `What did he say just now‟? These are the people on whose hearts
Allah sets a seal and they follow their passions‟. (Koran 47, 18) He makes
them deaf and blinds their sight.
Among the things that necessarily became clear to me from my practice
of the mystic „way‟ was the true nature and special characteristics of
prophetic revelation. The basis of that must undoubtedly be indicated in
view of the urgent need for it.
IV. THE TRUE NATURE OF PROPHECY
AND THE COMPELLING NEED OF ALL CREATION FOR IT
You must know that the substance of man in his original condition was
deny this fundamentally, they are astonished at this line of thought, they
listen and mock. `Amazing‟, they say. `What nonsense they talk!‟ About
such people Allah Most High has said: „Some of them listen to you, until,
upon going out from you, they say to those to whom knowledge has been
given, `What did he say just now‟? These are the people on whose hearts
Allah sets a seal and they follow their passions‟. (Koran 47, 18) He makes
them deaf and blinds their sight.
Among the things that necessarily became clear to me from my practice
of the mystic „way‟ was the true nature and special characteristics of
prophetic revelation. The basis of that must undoubtedly be indicated in
view of the urgent need for it.
IV. THE TRUE NATURE OF PROPHECY
AND THE COMPELLING NEED OF ALL CREATION FOR IT
You must know that the substance of man in his original condition was