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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

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

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and He made them houses for His light, mosques for His name, treasuries for His secret, and landmarks for His Gnosis by which He is recognized, and near them their illuminating lights are found, and their essences are intellectual, neither mixed with turbidity nor overtaken by languor, kindling with the light of faith and look with the eye of the All-Merciful, neither overtaken by imbalance nor dissolution, so if the believer delighted the heart of his brother and treated him with what pleases him and benefited him and elevated him or connected with him or supported him or accepted for him what he accepts for himself, that heart expanded and illuminated, and that light connected with what it appeared from, so it thanked and praised him as He praised, and God guaranteed that He will reward him the fullest reward; and indeed the believer, when he harms the heart of his brother and treats him with what does not please him or belittles him or disdains him or shuns him, God cuts off from him the substances of His wisdom and makes him forget what He had aided him with, and if he remained persisting upon his enmity, displaying his hatred while he is a knower of his faith, not doubting in his religion, God strips him of the light of faith and clothes him in the garment of humiliation and lowliness, and makes him in need of the worst of

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