Gnosis (Marifat) is the hovering of the heart between declaring God too great to be comprehended and declaring Him too mighty to be perceived. It consists in knowing that whatever may be imagined in the heart, God is the opposite of it.

Gnosis (Marifat) is the hovering of the heart between declaring God too great to be comprehended and declaring Him too mighty to be perceived. It consists in knowing that whatever may be imagined in the heart, God is the opposite of it.

Gnosis is the realization of thy ignorance when His knowledge comes, He continues to say: He (God) is at once the subject and object of gnosis.

Gnosis is the realization of thy ignorance when His knowledge comes, He continues to say: He (God) is at once the subject and object of gnosis.

One moment's forgetfulness of the Lord ruins a thousand years’ worship.

One moment's forgetfulness of the Lord ruins a thousand years’ worship.

The saint has no fear, because fear is the expectation either of some future calamity or of the eventual loss of some object of desires, whereas, the saint is the son of his time: he has no future that he should fear anything; and as he has no fear so he has no hope, since hope is the expectation either of gaining an object of desire or of being relieved of a misfortune, and this belongs to the future; nor does he grieve, because grief arises from the rigor of time, and how should he feel grief who is in the radiance of satisfaction (Rida) and the garden of concord (Muwafaqat).

The saint has no fear, because fear is the expectation either of some future calamity or of the eventual loss of some object of desires, whereas, the saint is the son of his time: he has no future that he should fear anything; and as he has no fear so he has no hope, since hope is the expectation either of gaining an object of desire or of being relieved of a misfortune, and this belongs to the future; nor does he grieve, because grief arises from the rigor of time, and how should he feel grief who is in the radiance of satisfaction (Rida) and the garden of concord (Muwafaqat).

Your heart is temple of God, let none be allowed to dwell there besides Him.

Your heart is temple of God, let none be allowed to dwell there besides Him.