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abstinent life and actually leading such a life and forsaking the world.
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.
It had already become clear to me that I had no hope of the bliss of the world to
come save through an Allah-fearing life and the withdrawal of myself from vain
desire. It was clear to me too that the key to all this was to sever the attachment
of the heart to worldly things by leaving the mansion of deception and returning
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.
It had already become clear to me that I had no hope of the bliss of the world to
come save through an Allah-fearing life and the withdrawal of myself from vain
desire. It was clear to me too that the key to all this was to sever the attachment
of the heart to worldly things by leaving the mansion of deception and returning