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pained.
Those to whom it is not even granted to have contact with mystics may know
with certainty the possibility of ecstasy by the evidence of demonstration, as I
have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders of the Heart of my Revival of
the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual acquaintance
with that state‟ is immediate experience (Thawq); the acceptance of it as
probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith (iman). These are three
degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have faith and those who have been
given knowledge in degrees of honor‟ (Koran 58, 12).
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
Those to whom it is not even granted to have contact with mystics may know
with certainty the possibility of ecstasy by the evidence of demonstration, as I
have remarked in the section entitled The Wonders of the Heart of my Revival of
the Religious Sciences.
Certainty reached by demonstration is knowledge (`ilm); actual acquaintance
with that state‟ is immediate experience (Thawq); the acceptance of it as
probable from hearsay and trial or observation is faith (iman). These are three
degrees. „Allah will raise those of you who have faith and those who have been
given knowledge in degrees of honor‟ (Koran 58, 12).
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