in the Blaze»1. «Not equal are the companions of the Fire and the companions of Paradise. The companions of Paradise - they are the attainers»2. «Indeed, those who inject deviation into Our verses are not hidden from Us. So, is he who is cast into the Fire better or he who comes secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do whatever you will; indeed, He is Seeing of what you do»3. How different is the one who strikes with the arrow of salvation and wins Paradise from the one whose guidance is lost and who denies his Master. Indeed, whosoever is ignorant of a thing is its enemy. May Allah destroy him who persists in falsehood and treads the earth without a proof."
The Hijazi said to the sheikh: "I would love for you to inform me of something I saw that terrified me." He said: "What is it?" He said: "I saw the beasts fear you and obey you, while you do not fear them nor feel lonely from them. I would love to know the reason for that." The sheikh said: "Have you not known that whoever fears Allah, everything fears him; and whoever does not fear Allah, he fears everything?" The Hijazi said to him: "O my master, it is as if the beasts know from you the location of the fear of Allah, so they fear you, stand in awe of you, and dread you." The sheikh said: "But you see who terrifies and frightens them." The Hijazi asked: "And how is that?"
The sheikh said: It is related from Amir Al-Muminin — Exalted Glory — that he said: "The stomach is the basin of the body; if science falls into it, it issues it to the limbs with benefits and curiosities, and the ambition rises to the world of the Kingdom (al-Malakūt). So, whosoever's food is lawful—which is the luminous internal science (al-'ilm al-bāṭin al-nūri)—his ambition rises to the path of wisdom. And Allah is the Possessor of prevailing favor and the Giver of gifts and endowments." Amir Al-Muminin — Exalted Glory — did not mean by the stomach anything other than the heart. Just as the stomach is the basin for food, so the heart is the basin for