[53] And Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Al-Mufaddal, peace be upon him, said: "Submit to your scholars and ask them about what you seek to understand from the sciences." And he mentioned the hadith: "Whoever seeks knowledge with insight, do not prevent him, for he is the saved one. And whoever seeks knowledge without insight then treat him with gentleness and drop the word to him until his heart is purified and his insight increases. And whoever's Lord is absent from him falls into wandering, so let him ask the one who is more knowledgeable of his Lord than him about the absence and the manifestation, and let him follow him in that, for everything he tells him, he will emulate. And whoever remains in his wandering and his doubt, he is cursed. And whoever attains the high gnosis and the great knowledge, he has been brought out from stench and foulness ¹ to the proximity of the Lord and His pleasure."

[54] And among what our sheikh Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khasibi, may God make his face radiant, mentioned in his treatise in this context from The Scholar, may His might be glorified, is that he said: "Whoever does not find