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things. Previously, however, I had been disseminating the knowledge by which
worldly success is attained; by word and deed I had called men to it; and that
had been my aim and intention. But now I am calling men to the knowledge
whereby worldly success is given up and its low position in the scale of real
worth is recognized. This is now my intention, my aim, my desire; Allah knows
that this is so. It is my earnest longing that I may make myself and others better.
I do not know whether I shall reach my goal or whether I shall be taken away
while short of my object. I believe, however, both by certain faith and by intuition
that there is no power and no might save with Allah, the high, the mighty, and
that I do not move of myself but am moved by Him, I do not work of myself but
am used by Him. I ask Him first of all to reform me and then to reform through
me, to guide me and then to guide through me, to show me the truth of what is
true and to grant of His bounty that I may follow it, and to show me the falsity of
what is false and to grant of His bounty that I may turn away from it.

We now return to the earlier topic of the causes for the weakness of faith, and
consider how to guide men aright and deliver them from the perils they face.

For those who profess perplexity as a result of what they have heard from the