The example is such that if a fruitless tree is planted and the purpose is to obtain fruit, even before planting, the purpose is lost, and the goal cannot be achieved.
Daily Archives: 2024-12-29
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A day out of many in a period of time, when a humble servant, was wandering around looking for a nest to rest, but found none. However, after years of wandering, it was realized that neither a nest nor this time remained in the eternal destination. Then it was asked, “What reason there might be that in search of a nest, time be spent and grain consumed?”
What is discussed in this treatise are not the words of the intellects, nor the words of lovers, but the words of unifiers, and the purpose of this treatise is not to discuss the words of philosophers and wise men, nor the words of mysticism and theology. It is indeed to discuss the principles of unity between these ideologies, and we begin this journey thus...
So whoever has humbled himself, the path will be made smooth for him and arrogance will disgust him. Otherwise, only the path of loss will be revealed: "But the one who corrupts himself (in sins and suppresses virtue) is doomed indeed." So the path of salvation is only in purifying the soul, and to be able to walk on the path of purification, one can only do so with humility and modesty, and not the opposite.
Since the beginning of the path was a descent, one cannot walk on it until one has made humility and modesty his profession, and cleansed the soul from all impurity: "Indeed the one who purifies his (ill-commanding) self (from all vain and vicious desires and cultivates in it virtue and piousness) succeeds."
... and because the stages of creation have descended from perfection, as Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) says: “Indeed We have created man in the best constitution (equipoised in the finest proportion) / then We returned him to the lowest state of the low.” so the eternal path has been made clear from descent to perfection, as said: “Indeed, we too are Allah’s (belongings) and to Him are we to return.”