so search for the knowledge of the obscurities so that the problems of the manifestations may cease from you, and from that.

Is what Abu al-Tahir Sabur mentioned to his child in his testament when he asked him and said to him: O my master, what is the sign of the sincere servant and what is the best of his deeds?!

He said: When his love and his hatred are in God, and he humbles himself without humiliation, and he practices asceticism in the world without scarcity, and his deeds are for no cause. He said to him: O my master, which of the sciences is higher and loftier? He said: The divine knowledge and the spiritual medicine. He said to him: What is the divine knowledge?!

He said to him: The knowledge of our masters, the People of the House, transcended their might, and that he seeks understanding in what they said and reflects upon what they mentioned. He said to him: So what is the spiritual medicine?! He said: That you become disciplined with their disciplines and act with their deeds, and that you do not oppose for them a saying and do not disobey for them a command." He said to him: "O my master, it was already narrated that when Gnosis and faith become sound, deeds become void?!"