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The Honey in the Gnosis of the Eternal - Salman Tahir Abd al-Rahman

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[40] And other than him said: "From the completion of the scholar's instrument is that he be severe of awe, grave of gathering, revered, silent, slow of turning around, few of gestures, still of movements, he does not associate nor does he become angry.

And another said:

My brother, you will not attain the scholar except by six

I will inform you of their detail with clarification

Purity, desire, diligence, and sufficiency

And companionship of a master, and length of time

[41] And the Messenger of Allah, His glory is mighty, said: Expose yourselves to the breezes of the Truth, for indeed, for Allah the Almighty, within the days of your time, there are breezes.

And one of the Sufis said: Exposure is only by preparation and the removal of obstacles, and the origin of that is the belief in the unseen beyond the intellect and the sense, and readiness for that inwardly and outwardly, until there remains not in the servant a passing thought that contends with him in anything of the world, then the adoption of manners in the treatment of the Truth and the creation with the legal manners, in command and prohibition,

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