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Al-Karaki Epistle - Jamal al-Din al-Karaki

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So with that, the reaching sheikhs and the advanced masters disciplined us, that it is not permissible for a man to open upon anyone of the disciples while he knows that there is in that town in which he is present who is more knowing than he except with his permission, so if there are in that town equals in knowledge, then let him consult the oldest of them in hearing, so if they are equal in hearing, then he consults ten of them before he addresses whom he wants to address, so if they pointed to him to address him, and they were praising his path and thanking his deeds in what he brings and leaves.

They said to his master: We have already perceived his maturity and we accepted him for you as a child in the Gnosis of God, the Exalted, so at that time he addresses him in the presence of two men of the believers and makes them both witnesses over him, then he opens the gate for him and enters him to the Gnosis of the veil and connects him upon the Gnosis of the Lord of lords and the Owner of the necks, the Eternal, the Ancient, the High, the Magnificent, the Commander of the Faithful, Haydarah, Abu Turab, as He, Mighty and Majestic is He,

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