if you do not conceal it, Allah will cause you to taste the heat of iron and its coldness."

[108] And our Master, the Commander of the Faithful, said in the "Book of a Thousand Words" [Kitab al-Alf Kalimah]: "The ultimate limit of an deeply profound investigator into our knowledge is to remain ignorant." Then he said: "You will come to recognize the state according to its reality, but at a point where you will not be able to discuss it with anyone. And that which deserves the name of true happiness is the happiness of the Hereafter, which consists of four types: permanence without cessation, knowledge without ignorance, power without incapacity, and wealth without poverty." Then he said: "The one from the covering of whose heart has been removed sees his Sought Object having filled the horizons [al-khafiqayn]; so his sight does not fall upon anything except that he sees Him within it."

The Sheikh Mahmud Husayn said in his treatise: Some of them narrated that Allah manifests during the night and then proclaims: "Where are those who claim my love during the day? Is it not that every lover loves seclusion with his beloved? Behold, here I am,